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Whereas of paramount value to historic Greek society, sophrosyne, the worth of self-restraint, constitutes a notoriously advanced notion, and offers the speaker of old Greek with a refined tool for verbal persuasion. This learn offers a brand new description of the semantics of sophrosyne in Archaic and Classical Greek, in keeping with a version from the sphere of cognitive linguistics. along with, the amount indicates how this kind of semantic description can give a contribution to the research and research of our assets: it investigates how audio system in our texts (ab)use the time period to accomplish their ends, overlaying many of the major texts, and culminating in a bankruptcy at the dialogues of Plato.

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As we know from the context, Telemachus held his position of ‘keeping quiet until/for the sake of the revenge’ for two whole densely packed days of narrated time. Cf. Il. 205 ∏i! in in Od. 7 (the almost proverbial ‘stupidity’ of Odysseus’ crew). ’ Focus on behaviour, however, is entirely common for the singular as well.

Vfrone›n would have to meet. (1) The description should be able to accommodate, without embarrassment, a large number of uses, always giving precedence to the peculiarities of particular uses as they occur, and resisting any tendency to reduce their number beforehand by abstracting generalisations from them. I regard polysemy as the normal case even in lexical items of limited complexity, let alone in the case of abstract value terms. A concept does not exist independently of the cognitive perception of the world outside, and shares its complexity with the perceived reality.

Frvn, and Helena evidently is not. ≈frvn wife, ——— 30 Labov (1973). 24 CHAPTER ONE notably — up to the start of Euripides’ play, at least — undeniable loyalty to Jason. ≈frvn wife whose loyalty is carried to the extreme of self-sacrifice. ) (3) It would seem, then, that not all members of a category have equal status: ‘borderline’ cases are bad examples of a category, and conversely, very ‘central’ cases are rather better ones. Here, we come to a phenomenon that complements the fuzziness of the category at its boundaries: the so-called prototype effects, first described in detail by Eleanor Rosch.

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