02-23-2012, 05:53 PM
Ita, amice.
The last part of the Blackwell Companion to the Latin Language has an assortment of articles, bits and further bibliographies and is a veritable gold mine in general. I also heartily suggest you look towards the ancient texts themselves if you wish to avoid anything too technical: Plautus and Terrentius are actually a philologists treasure trove, full of colloquialisms, class specific registers and social play, archaisms etc. It's certainly much more useful than the letters despite their comparative earliness.
Oh and I guess they're funny too, if you're into that sort of stuff.
See if only you had asked me about Greek I'd be much more helpful, I don't trust my work on Latin socio-pragmatics etc since it's been three years.
The last part of the Blackwell Companion to the Latin Language has an assortment of articles, bits and further bibliographies and is a veritable gold mine in general. I also heartily suggest you look towards the ancient texts themselves if you wish to avoid anything too technical: Plautus and Terrentius are actually a philologists treasure trove, full of colloquialisms, class specific registers and social play, archaisms etc. It's certainly much more useful than the letters despite their comparative earliness.
Oh and I guess they're funny too, if you're into that sort of stuff.
See if only you had asked me about Greek I'd be much more helpful, I don't trust my work on Latin socio-pragmatics etc since it's been three years.
Jass
