Insultos, amenazas y maldiciones en el campo de batalla:  las reprimendas entre aliados en la Ilíada

Luz Conti Jimenez

doi:10.5209/cfcg.96780

Insultos, amenazas y maldiciones en el campo de batalla: las reprimendas entre aliados en la Ilíada

Luz Conti Jimenez Universidad Autónoma de Madrid https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5264-0198

DOI: https://doi.org/10.5209/cfcg.96780

Keywords: Iliad, speech acts of rebuke, reprimands, impoliteness, institutional impoliteness

Abstract

In the Iliad, certain harangues characterized by the accumulation of insults, threats and curses, can be analyzed as macro-speech acts of reprimand. These macro-speech acts show both a similar structure and similar linguistic strategies. The impoliteness of these reprimands is normalized and thus acceptable to both speaker and interlocutor. It is an institutional impoliteness that uses the humiliation of the interlocutor as a mean of reaffirming the values of the army to which he belongs.

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2025-03-31

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Conti Jimenez L. (2025). Insultos, amenazas y maldiciones en el campo de batalla: las reprimendas entre aliados en la Ilíada. Cuadernos de Filología Clásica. Estudios griegos e indoeuropeos, 35, 109-123. https://doi.org/10.5209/cfcg.96780

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