Cicero’s comments on his word choice

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MIKULOVÁ Jana

Year of publication 2025
Type Appeared in Conference without Proceedings
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Faculty of Arts

Citation MIKULOVÁ, Jana. Cicero’s comments on his word choice. In 23rd International Colloquium on Latin Linguistics, 9.-13. 2025, Udine. 2025.
Description Cicero used to guide addressees through his works by using various types of expressions and commentaries. They ranged from the expressions of stance (e.g. ut puto “as I think”, credo “I think, I believe”) through commentaries on the discourse structure (e.g. ante quam dico … “before I tell …” ) up to commentaries on word choice and word meaning (e.g. ut ita dicam “so to speak”, ut dicitur “as it is said”). The paper will focus on the last category of expressions that signal the chosen word is used metaphorically, as a simile, as an equivalent of a foreign word, as a saying, and so forth. In addition, some of these expressions also can modify the illocutionary force of an utterance.
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