Attentive readers! Katherine posted a
pertinent paragraph about speech act theory early on in the blog. Last week, James and Kitty gave us a vivid demonstration of the performative power of speech acts when they adopted (channeled?) personae as they translated. We have seen how Trimalchio tries to control his audience through puns, and the strong reaction this evokes in Encolpius. Keep an eye out for other sorts of speech acts-- prayers, toasts, orders, curses, testaments, interruptions-- and how the various audiences of the
Satyricon react to them.
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