Monthly meeting of the EVWRIT team to discuss and develop a new theoretical perspective towards communication practices in Antiquity.
Once a month from January 2019, the EVWRIT team will meet to discuss and develop a new theoretical perspective towards communication practices in Antiquity.
Theoretical sessions on fundamental aspects of novel methodologies (cognitive sociolinguistics, social semiotics, paléographie signifiante…) will be interchanged with practical ones (doing statistics, showing a database, presenting a paper…).
The reading group is open to anyone interested.
In this session of the reading group, we will discuss tense and aspect. The moderator for this session is Simon Aerts. The recommended literature for this session is the following:
- Introducing a three-dimensional approach to narratives with a focus on tenses and perspectives (especially the first nine pages, i.e. section 1-4)
Aerts, Simon. forthcoming. “A Three-Dimensional, Systemic Functional Analysis of Tense Usage in Gregory of Tours’ Historia Francorum.” Acta Antiqua Academiae Scientiarum Hungarica 59. Please don’t spread beyond this group!
- Focussing on deictic shifts in Ancient Greek narratives
Nijk, Arjan A. 2019. “Bridging the Gap between the near and the Far: Displacement and Representation.” Cognitive Linguistics 30 (2): 327–350.
- On the epistolary imperfect (please feel free to read in any grammar in any language you wish):
Kühner, Raphael, and Carl Stegmann. 1912. Ausführliche Grammatik der Lateinischen Sprache, II: Satzlehre, vol.1: Syntaxe des einfaches Satzes. Hannover: Hahnsche Buchhandlung, §39 (about 3 pages): Gebrauch der Zeitformen im Briefstile
- On the interpersonal metafunction in a more general way (only 4.1 and 4.2 but please feel free to read more in this accessible textbook)
Thompson, Geoff. 2014. Introducing Functional Grammar. 3rd edition. London: Routledge, Chapter 4: Interacting – The interpersonal metafunction (p. 45-87)
The session will be held in English.
For further questions or remarks, contact Simon Aerts at Simon.Aerts@UGent.be.
For more information about the EVWRIT project, see http://www.evwrit.ugent.be/.