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Ambiguity in the "Aeneid".

Wharton, David Bradford.

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Ambiguity in the "Aeneid".

Record Type:	Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Ambiguity in the "Aeneid"./
Author:	Wharton, David Bradford.
Description:	134 p.
Notes:	Director: Sara Mack.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International53-07A.
Subject:	Language, Ancient. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=9235044

Ambiguity in the "Aeneid".
Wharton, David Bradford.

Ambiguity in the "Aeneid". - 134 p.

Director: Sara Mack.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 1992.

The dissertation undertakes systematically to discuss ambiguity of several types in the first four books of the Aeneid. The types are drawn largely from semantics and linguistics, and fall into one of three categories: semantic, syntactic, or pragmatic ambiguity. Typology and methodology are explained briefly in the first chapter. The second chapter analyzes a number of cases of lexical polysemy, including cases of zeugma or syllepsis; it is concluded that Vergil tends to exploit relatively closely related senses of words in contexts where the two (or more) possible utterance meanings are generally complementary rather than antagonistic. The third chapter discusses ambiguity in semantic function (primarily involving the ablative case); the fourth chapter discusses syntactic ambiguities in the terminology of Functional Grammar. General tendencies with respect to the semantic content of functionally and syntactically ambiguous lines are found to be similar to those observed in the second chapter. Chapter Five explores "sense leakage," i.e., the possible interaction of senses of words that are grammatically unconnected, and temporary ambiguities. Chapter Six examines a variety of pragmatic sources of ambiguity, primarily from the perspective of speech act semantics and the "implicature maxims" of H. Paul Grice. Vergil's tendencies with respect to referential ambiguity are discussed, as are ways that Vergil can produce multiple meanings, not only about the fictional world of the Aeneid, but about the real world, by exploiting several kinds of layered narrative, by ecphrasis, and by allusion. The final chapter summarizes the results of all of the preceding, and concludes with some observations on the relation of those results to some of the more recent major critical studies of the Aeneid.Subjects--Topical Terms:

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Language, Ancient.

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