@article{Moretti_2019, title={Orality in the Gesta concilii Aquileiensis (AD 381)}, volume={14}, url={https://philclass.spbu.ru/article/view/6444}, DOI={10.21638/11701/spbu20.2019.108}, abstractNote={<p>In this paper, a methodological issue is considered concerning the <em>corpus </em>of texts bearing witness to “spoken Latin”. Within this <em>corpus </em>there are also some texts that have been neglected up until now, stemming from shorthand records of spoken utterances: all of them — either dialogal or monologal — share a conversational <em>allure</em>, that allows the singling out of both universal and historical features of spoken (late) Latin. One of these texts, the <em>Gesta concilii Aquileiensis</em>, is then examined: the shorthand report of a Church council summoned in AD 381, where a lively debate is recorded among bishops supporting opposite views — Catholic vs. Arian — of the divinity of Christ. The survey on the universal traits of orality surfacing in the <em>Gesta </em>focuses on the <em>textual-pragmatic</em>, the <em>syntactic </em>and the <em>semantic levels</em>. It leads to interesting results, concerning above all <em>syntax </em>(prominence of parataxis, and of descendent order of the phrasal constituents within the complex sentence, i.e. independent clause > dependent clause) and <em>semantics </em>(lack of lexical innovation; inclination for expressive words). Despite the undeniably formal — and sometimes even formulaic — character of the dialogue, I would argue that the <em>Gesta </em>allow us to listen as it were to the voices of a group of cultured bishops animatedly discussing subtle theological matters.</p>}, number={1}, journal={Philologia Classica}, author={Moretti, Paola Francesca}, year={2019}, month={июн.}, pages={107–120} }