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Homeric Conversation

Homeric Conversation © Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, 2008 DOI: 10.1163/156852507X235308 Mnemosyne 61 (2008) 482-484 www.brill.nl/mnem De novis libris iudicia Beck, D. 2005. Homeric Conversation. Cambridge, MA/London, Center for Hel- lenic Studies. ix, 317 p. Pr. $19.95. Th ough it is too bold to say that Homeric conversation has never received schol- arly attention, 1) as Beck (B.) claims on p. 1 of her book, it is true that Homeric speeches have never been analysed with the help of modern conversation analysis or discourse analysis. Th ose who expect, however, to find such an analysis in this book, as I was when I started reading it, will be disappointed. Apart from the term ‘turn-taking’ there is no trace of any conversation analytical approach. Rather B. proposes to look at conversations as type-scenes, on a par with arrival, supplica- tion, sacrifice type-scenes, etc. Th is point of departure is mainly stated and iter- ated (p. 3, 8-15, etc.), but hardly applied in practice. Indeed, B. hardly anywhere discusses the content of speeches, but instead concentrates on their frames, the passages which introduce and cap speeches. She introduces the type-scene in order to follow what is in essence a simple approach: whenever routine and http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Mnemosyne Brill

Homeric Conversation

de Jong, Irene
Mnemosyne , Volume 61 (3): 3 – Jan 1, 2008
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© Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, 2008 DOI: 10.1163/156852507X235308 Mnemosyne 61 (2008) 482-484 www.brill.nl/mnem De novis libris iudicia Beck, D. 2005. Homeric Conversation. Cambridge, MA/London, Center for Hel- lenic Studies. ix, 317 p. Pr. $19.95. Th ough it is too bold to say that Homeric conversation has never received schol- arly attention, 1) as Beck (B.) claims on p. 1 of her book, it is true that Homeric speeches have never been analysed with the help of modern conversation analysis or discourse analysis. Th ose who expect, however, to find such an analysis in this book, as I was when I started reading it, will be disappointed. Apart from the term ‘turn-taking’ there is no trace of any conversation analytical approach. Rather B. proposes to look at conversations as type-scenes, on a par with arrival, supplica- tion, sacrifice type-scenes, etc. Th is point of departure is mainly stated and iter- ated (p. 3, 8-15, etc.), but hardly applied in practice. Indeed, B. hardly anywhere discusses the content of speeches, but instead concentrates on their frames, the passages which introduce and cap speeches. She introduces the type-scene in order to follow what is in essence a simple approach: whenever routine and

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