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Ironía y oralidad en Heródoto

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    Statement of Responsibility:
    Ginestí Rosell, Anna
    Main Author:
    Ginestí Rosell, Anna

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    Format:
    Journal article
    Language:
    Spanish; Castilian
    Form / Genre:
    text (article)
    Published:
    2020
    In:
    Fortunatae: Revista canaria de Filología ISSN 1131-6810 Nº 32, 2020, pags. 227-238
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    In Herodotus' History irony and orality appear in relation to each other. The lack of signals of irony in many passages can beexplained if we consider that Herodotus had in mind a public reading of his work, in which prosody elements can serve as signal for theintended ironic interpretation. In turn, the passages analysed here present other elements of oral style, showing how Herodotus reproduces in them the oral style of his own sources. The irony appears to us as a stimulus for oral transmission


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