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• Title:
  Oedipus’ Freudian slips: language, kinship and tyranny
• Creator:
  Kucharski, Janek
• Description:
  This paper deals with the linguistic aspect of tragic irony in the Oedipus Rex. It begins with the observation that several ambiguous expressions in the play telegraph their double meaning through various kinds of linguistic slips. It is argued that these slips occur on three distinct levels: semantics, syntax and pragmatics. There follows an analysis of several examples under each of these three headings. The paper concludes with the observation that when it comes to the question of Oedipus’ familial relationships and the legitimacy of his rule in Thebes, language itself fails the hero and defies his attempts at controlling it.
• Object availability:
  free access
• Rights: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
• Date:
  2023.09.20
• Type:
  info:eu-repo/semantics/article;
  info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion;
  Artykuł naukowy
• Language:
  English
• Source:
  Symbolae Philologorum Posnaniensium Graecae et Latinae; Vol. 33 No. 1 (2023); 205-218;
  Symbolae Philologorum Posnaniensium Graecae et Latinae; Tom 33 Nr 1 (2023); 205-218;
  2720-2305;
  0302-7384
• Format:
  application/pdf
• Publisher:
  Adam Mickiewicz University Poznan
• Relation: http://pressto.amu.edu.pl/index.php/sppgl/article/view/39428/33376
• Subject:
  Oedipus;
  incest;
  language;
  inguistics;
  tragic irony
• Identifier: http://pressto.amu.edu.pl/index.php/sppgl/article/view/39428
• Data provider:
  Platforma Otwartych Czasopism Naukowych UAM
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• Type:
  text