Vocativos en monólogos narrativos en griego clásico: estudio de Eurípides y Platónuse in Classical Greek narrative monologues: the case of Euripides and Plato

Resumen

This work aims to analyse interaction management, and more specifically, vocative use within narrative monologues in Classical Greek. To do so, a corpus encompassing a number of Platonic myths and messenger speeches from Euripides’ plays has been examined through the lens of narratology and Conversation Analysis. The results obtained prove that there is indeed a pattern in vocative use: they pop up in the more marginal parts of the narrative (abstract, coda, evaluation), when the speaker “returns home” to the starting point of the interaction, and also when introducing direct speech. The distribution of vocatives differs according to each author and the degree of overtness shown by the narrator.