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Contents Abbreviations xi Part I.Discourse and Memory 1 Introduction 3 1.Speech Acts in Homer: the Rebuke as a Casestudy 23 2.On Declining an Invitation: Context, Form, and Function 52 3.Questions in the Odyssey: Rhythm and Regularity 74 4.Hysteron proteron in Questions and Answers 102 5.Verbal Behaviour in its Social Context: Three Question Strategies in the Odyssey 117 Part II.Discourse and Gender 143 6.Linguistic Choices in Homer: Rebukes and Protests 145 7.Competitive and Cooperative Strategies I: InformationQuestions 175 8.Competitive and Cooperative Strategies II: Directives 188 9.Competitive and Cooperative Strategies III: Interruptions 222 10.Storytelling and Gender 245 Conclusion 282 Bibliography 288 Index Locorum 000 General Index 000
Library of Congress Subject Headings for this publication:
Homer -- Criticism and interpretation.
Rhetoric, Ancient.
Speech in literature.
Oratory, Ancient.
Speeches, addresses, etc., Greek -- History and criticism -- Theory.