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cv43nv95912	Daniel Gregory Perett	Calculated Insults: The Rhetorical Use of Invective by Latin Authors of the Imperial Age and Late Antiquity	2012		.txt	text/plain	263	8	20	The five main functions of invective are identified and discussed in a wide variety of texts, and are offered as a hermeneutic tool for a greater understanding of Latin texts, both imperial and patristic, in which artful insulting speech is used. Following a discussion of the definition of oratorical invective, the dissertation uses speech act theory to identify five main purposes that invective could serve in ancient oratory: social distancing, redirection of hostility or blame, polarization of a conflict, creation of plausibility, and the explanation of an event or situation.	cache/cv43nv95912.txt	txt/cv43nv95912.txt