Dramatic implications of echoed speech in Skírnismál

This chapter argues for the dramatic possibilities created by the many echoing responses of the Old Norse-Icelandic eddic dialogue poem Skírnismál. Insights from modern linguistics, especially conversational pragmatics, have the capacity to illuminate the workings of inter-speaker echo in the poem,...

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Main Author: Soper, H
Other Authors: McMahon, B
Format: Book section
Language:English
Published: Routledge 2022

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