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Faculty of Arts and HumanitiesDepartment of Linguistics (Discourse Studies)

Prof. Dr. Anna Bonifazi

Discourse Studies
Department of Linguistics
D-50923 Cologne

Luxemburger Str. 299
Room 4.06
D-50929 Cologne

Tel: +49-221-470-89924
Fax: +49-221-470-5947

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E-Mail: anna.bonifazi[at]uni-koeln[dot]de

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Publications

Monographs

  • Bonifazi, Anna. 2016 (online)/2021 (print). Particle Use in Herodotus and Thucydides. Part IV (pp. 565-879) in Anna Bonifazi, Annemieke Drummen & Mark de Kreij, Particles in Ancient Greek Discourse: Exploring Particle Use across Genres.Hellenic Studies Series 74. Washington, DC: Center for Hellenic Studies. https://chs.harvard.edu/book/bonifazi-drummen-de-kreij-eds-particles-in-ancient-greek-discourse/
  • Bonifazi, Anna. 2012a. Homer's Versicolored Fabric: The Evocative Power of Ancient Greek Epic Word-Making. Hellenic Studies Series, Washington D.C. and Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.
  • Bonifazi, Anna. 2001. Mescolare un cratere di canti. Pragmatica della poesia epinicia in Pindaro. Alessandria: Edizioni dell'Orso.
  • In preparation: Bonifazi, Anna & David F. Elmer. Epic Song as Multimodal Communication: A Study of Alija Fjuljanin’s "Halil Hrnjičić and Miloš the Highwayman (Milman Parry Collection 662).

Peer-reviewed articles, book chapters, and conference proceedings

  • Bonifazi, Anna and Pinelopi Ioannidou. Forthcoming, 2024. Cross- and multimodal anaphoric references in mystery movies: a cognitive approach. Yearbook of the German Cognitive Linguistics Association 12: 229-258.
  • Bonifazi, Anna. 2023 (online). Cross-modal iconicity in songs about weeping. Semiotica, 1-29.
  • Bonifazi, Anna. 2023. "Herodotus’ verbal strategies to depict Cambyses’ abnormality”. In Herodotean Soundings: The Cambyses Logos, A. Schütze & A. Schwab (eds.), 93-108. Tübingen: Classica Monacensia, Narr Verlag.
  • Bonifazi, Anna, Pinelopi Ioannidou & Zala Salarzai. 2022. Proper names as anaphoric expressions in short crime stories: Doing more than referring within and across paragraphs. Journal of Pragmatics 193:88-104.
  • Bonifazi, Anna. 2022. “Dialogic syntax in ancient Greek conversation”. In Bridging the Gap Between Conversation Analysis and Poetics: Studies in Talk-In-Interaction and Literature Twenty-Five Years after Jefferson, R. Person, J. Rae, and R. Wooffitt (eds.), 140-179. London: Routledge.
  • Bonifazi, Anna. 2020 (online)/2021 (print). How To Do Things with keinos and autos in Tragedy: Initial Suggestions. In G. Martin, F. Iurescia, S. Hof & G. Sorrentino (eds.), Pragmatic Approaches to Drama: Studies in Communication on the Ancient Stage, 19-42. Leiden and Boston: Brill.
  • Bonifazi, Anna. 2019. Autos and the Center-Periphery Image Schema. In W.M. Short & E. Mocciaro (eds.), The Embodied Basis of Constructions in Greek and Latin, 126-148. Berlin: De Gruyter.
  • Bonifazi, Anna 2019. The forbidden fruit of compression in Homer. In P. Meineck, J. Devereaux & W. Shorts (eds.), The Routledge Handbook of Classics and Cognitive Theory, 122-138. New York: Routledge.
  • Bonifazi, Anna. 2018. Embedded focalization and free indirect speech in Homer as viewpoint blending. In J. Ready & C. Tsagalis (eds.), Homer in Performance: Rhapsodes, Narrators, and Characters, 230-254. Austin: University of Texas Press.
  • Bonifazi, Anna. 2016. Particles as cues to structuring in South Slavic and early Greek epic. In C. Pagán Cánovas & M. Antović (eds.), Oral Poetics and Cognitive Science, 125-147. Berlin: De Gruyter.
  • Bonifazi, Anna & David F. Elmer. 2016. Visuality in South Slavic and Homeric Epic. Classics@14. Washington, DC: Center for Hellenic Studies.
  • Bonifazi, Anna. 2015. Problematizing syndetic coordination: Ancient Greek 'and' from Homer to Aristophanes. In C. Viti (ed.), Perspectives on Historical Syntax, 251-269. Amsterdam: Benjamins.
  • Bonifazi, Anna. 2013b. Deixis. In G. Giannakis et al. (eds.), Encyclopedia of Ancient Greek Language and Linguistics (EAGLL) (1), 422-429. Leiden and Boston: Brill.
  • Bonifazi, Anna. 2013a. Topic. In G. Giannakis et al. (eds.), Encyclopedia of Ancient Greek Language and Linguistics (EAGLL) (3), 411-414. Leiden and Boston: Brill.
  • Bonifazi, Anna. 2012. Drops of poetry, drops of music: Performing as weeping. A Virtual Birthday Gift Presented to Gregory Nagy on Turning Seventy by his Students, Colleagues, and Friends. Washington DC.
  • Bonifazi, Anna & David F. Elmer. 2012b. The Meaning of Melody: Remarks on the Performance-Based Analysis of Bosniac Epic Song. In J. Harris & B. Hillers (eds.), Child's Children: Ballad Study and Its Legacies, 293-309. Trier: Wissenschaflticher Verlag Trier.
  • Bonifazi, Anna & David F. Elmer. 2012a. Composing lines, performing acts: clauses, discourse acts, and melodic units in a South Slavic epic song. In E. Michin (ed.), Orality, Literacy and Performance in the Ancient World, 89-109. Leiden and Boston: Brill.
  • Bonifazi, Anna. 2010. Anaphoric pronouns αὐτός and κεῖνος in Homer: a cognitive-pragmatic approach. In I. Putzu et al. (eds.), La morfologia del greco tra tipologia e diacronia. Atti del VII Incontro internazionale di linguistica greca, Cagliari 13-15 settembre 2007, 97-114. Milan: Francoangeli.
  • Bonifazi, Anna. 2009c. Inquiring into nostos and its cognates. American Journal of Philology 130. 481-510.
  • Bonifazi, Anna. 2009b. Discourse cohesion through third person pronouns: the case of κεῖνος and αὐτός in Homer. In G. Wakker & S. Bakker (eds.), Discourse Cohesion in Ancient Greek, 1-19. Leiden and Boston: Brill.
  • Bonifazi, Anna. 2009a. The pragmatic meanings of some discourse markers in Homer. In E. Rieken & P. Widmer (eds.), Pragmatische Kategorien: Form, Funktion und Diachronie. Akten der Arbeitstagung der Indogermanischen Gesellschaft von 24. bis 26. September 2007 in Marburg, 29-36. Wiesbaden: Reichert.
  • Bonifazi, Anna. 2008b. Early Greek Explorations Across the Mediterranean and the Semantics of Nostos in Homer. In E. Cingano & L. Milano (eds.), Papers on Ancient Literatures: Greece, Rome and the Near East, 105-133. Padua: Sargon.
  • Bonifazi, Anna. 2008a. Memory and Visualization in Homeric Discourse Markers. In E. A. Mackay (ed.), Orality, Literacy, Memory in the Ancient Greek and Roman World, 35-64. Leiden and Boston: Brill.
  • Bonifazi, Anna. 2004c. Relative Pronouns and Memory: Pindar Beyond Syntax. Harvard Studies in Classical Philology 102. 41-68.
  • Bonifazi, Anna. 2004b. κεῖνος in Pindar: Between Grammar and Poetic Intention. Classical Philology 99. 283-299.
  • Bonifazi, Anna. 2004a. Communication in Pindar's Deictic Acts. Arethusa 37. 391-414.
  • Bonifazi, Anna. 2000. Sull'idea di sotterfugio orale negli epinici pindarici. Quaderni Urbinati di Cultura Classica 95. 69-86.