The translation of irony in Demosthenes' On the Crown

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Published: May 6, 2023
DOI: https://doi.org/10.6035/MonTI.2023.15.04
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Translation, Irony, Invective, Demosthenes, Aeschines

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Raquel Fornieles Sánchez
Universidad Autónoma de Madrid

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The purpose of this paper is to offer an approach to the translation of irony in Demosthenes’ masterpiece – the speech On the Crown – into Spanish within the framework of the verbal attacks that the orator directs on his great political rival, Aeschines

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Fornieles Sánchez, R. (2023). The translation of irony in Demosthenes’ On the Crown. MonTI. Monographs in Translation and Interpreting, (15), 120–140. https://doi.org/10.6035/MonTI.2023.15.04
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Raquel Fornieles Sánchez, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid

Raquel Fornieles Sánchez studied Journalism at Universidad Complutense de Madrid (BA 2003) and Classics at Universidad Autónoma de Madrid (BA 2009, MA 2010, PhD 2015). She has been a Lecturer of Greek Philology at Universidad Autónoma of Madrid since 2016. Her research interests cover a range of topics associated with Greek linguistics. Currently, her research focuses on (im)politeness phenomena in Greek Oratory, specifically in speeches by Lysias, Aeschines and Demosthenes. She is the head researcher of the project “EIRONEIA. La ironía como recurso retórico en el lenguaje judicial ateniense” (SI3/PJI/2021-00208).

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