Good old δημαγωγοί: Aristophanic Plays as a Testimony for the δημαγωγία’s Semantic Field

  • Mariana Franco San Román
Keywords: demagogia, Aristophanes, rhetoric, discourse analysis, polysemy

Abstract

Three of the five testimonies of the demagogía’s semantic field in Fifth-Century Athens’ texts belong to the aristophanic corpus (Eq.191, 217; Ra.419). Since 1972 scholars agree, from a historical and sociological perspective, that demagogía and demagogós were originally “neutral” (Connor, 1992; Lane, 2012). Considering that words are characterized by a constitutive polysemy (Authier-Revuz, 1995), and that they take their meaning from those discursive formations in which they are produced (Pêcheux,1988), the aim of this article will be the analysis of the aristophanic testimonies’ cotext in the light of the theories of Discourse Studies and Rhetorical Studies.

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Franco San Román, M. (1). Good old δημαγωγοί: Aristophanic Plays as a Testimony for the δημαγωγία’s Semantic Field. Anales De Filología Clásica, 1(28), 19-32. https://doi.org/10.34096/afc.v1i28.2527
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