CBOIAO: Constructing the 'Barbarian Other' in Attic Oratory of the Fourth Century B.C.E.

CBIOIAO：在公元前四世纪的阁楼演讲中构建“野蛮的他者”

• 批准号: EP/Y025172/1
• 负责人: Lene Rubinstein
• 金额: $ 23.84万
• 依托单位: Royal Holloway University of London
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Fellowship
• 财政年份: 2024
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2024 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=EP%2FY025172%2F1
• 关键词: CBOIAO; Constructing; Barbarian; Other; Attic

Identities, at both individual and collective levels, are normally considered to denote a self-conceptualisation that is predicated on perceptions of similarity and difference. Although scholars have noted the significance of the oppositional othering between Greeks and non-Greeks in the formation of Greek identities, the processes that the rhetoric of the 'barbarian other' played in fourth-century BCE political and everyday communication have not been systematically examined. Adopting the social-cognitive theory of Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA) to analyse the corpus of Attic oratory, the project aims to explore the relationship between individual orators' manipulative use of ethnographic images of the 'barbarian other' and their cognitive and emotive effect on the audiences in different Athenian institutional settings, especially in the Assembly and law courts, on civic occasions such as Panhellenic festivals and public funerals, and in small private gatherings including symposia and schools. By identifying the presence and function of nonGreeks in Attic oratory, examining the rhetorical strategies and linguistic features deplored by the orators, as well as juxtaposing close readings of relevant passages within the broader historical and social-political contexts, the project will demonstrate the dynamic relationship between the orators and the audiences, and elucidate Athenian public and private discourses about the 'barbarian other' as a matter of cultural identity and processes, as well as a result of individual strategies and choices. Through exploring and exposing the (ethnic) biases, problematic assumptions and habits of thought that underlie the rhetoric of 'otherness' in ancient political and everyday discourse, the project will help reflect on the strategies and language used in contemporary discourse concerning foreigners and outsiders, in particular, on what role of the rhetoric of the 'other' plays in political and educational domains.

在个人和集体层面上，身份通常被认为表示一种基于相似性和差异性感知的自我概念化。尽管学者们已经注意到希腊人和非希腊人之间的对立他者在希腊身份形成中的重要性，但“野蛮他者”修辞在公元前四世纪政治和日常交流中所发挥的作用尚未得到系统研究。该项目采用批判性话语分析（CDA）的社会认知理论来分析阿提卡演讲语料库，旨在探讨个体演讲者对“野蛮他者”的民族志图像的操纵性使用与其对他人的认知和情感影响之间的关系。雅典不同机构环境中的观众，特别是议会和法院、泛希腊节日和公共葬礼等公民场合以及小型私人聚会，包括研讨会和学校。通过识别非希腊人在阿提卡演讲中的存在和作用，检查演讲者所谴责的修辞策略和语言特征，以及在更广泛的历史和社会政治背景下仔细阅读相关段落，该项目将展示这种动态关系演说者和观众之间的对话，并阐明雅典关于“野蛮他者”的公共和私人话语，将其视为文化身份和过程的问题，以及个人策略和选择。通过探索和揭露古代政治和日常话语中“他者”修辞背后的（种族）偏见、有问题的假设和思维习惯，该项目将有助于反思当代关于外国人和局外人的话语中使用的策略和语言，特别是关于“他者”的修辞在政治和教育领域发挥什么作用。