Sociopragmatic Translation in Latin

Victoria B. Fendel is a researcher in historical linguistics at the University of Oxford, editor of the Classics section of the Literary Encyclopaedia, and language leader for Ancient Greek in the PARSEME (UniDive COST CA21167) initiative. She completed an MA in Classical Greek and Ancient Near East Studies at the University of Basel, a DPhil in Classical Languages and Literature at the University of Oxford, and an MPhil in Theoretical and Applied Linguistics at the University of Cambridge. Her research focuses on language contact, especially in Egypt and on Sicily, multi-word expressions in literary, epigraphic, and papyrological data, and on the development of digital tools for large corpus-language corpora, thus applying general linguistic concepts to corpus languages.

• 1. Beyond Good and Evil: Introduction to translation(s)2. Laying foundations: Latin language(1) Three myths about Latin debunked: Latin(s), word order(s), and translation(s)(2) All the endings great and small: Ambiguities, alternatives, word histories, and hybrids(3) Form and function or do you know English: Periphrastics, redundancies, and functionalities(4) Terms and conditions: Uncertainties, relative time, and the sequence of tenses(5) Hard and fast rules: Negation, parentheticals, and modality in context3. Old friends: Usual suspects(6) Jigsaw puzzles, arrows, and colours: Basics of translation technique(7) I heard it somewhere: Indirect speech(8) Once upon a time: Participles, relative and absolute time(9) Meaning at a whole new level: Word order(10) It is written in stone: Passives (and deponents)(11) Whatever you say: Relatives(12) Verbing nouns: nd forms(13) If is good: Conditionals(14) From bubbles, clusters, and fields: Multifunctionality and relatedness4. New acquaintances: Extraordinary troublemakers(15) If only I could turn back time: Wishes(16) Who’s responsible: Subobliques, Internal dependency, and reported speech(17) Emphasis & Co.: Vivid, emphatic, marked, and attention-drawing(18) Making changes: Support-verb constructions(19) I told you I would: Asyndetic structures5. Sociopragmatics in action: Case studies(20) My language, your language, our language: Diastratic, diatopic, diachronic(21) Caesar’s reports: Caesar, Gallic War, IV (campaigns in Gaul and Britain and the Rhine crossing)(22) Cicero’s speeches: Cicero, Speeches against Catiline, IV (setting precedent in front of the senate at the Temple of Concordia)(23) Vergil’s epic: Vergil, Aeneid, XI (councils of war in Italy)(24) Ovid’s elegiac: Ovid, Letters from the Black Sea, I.10 (to Flaccus on his state of health)(25) Quintilian’s manual: Quintilian, Institutes of Oratory, XII (description of the perfect orator)