Understanding Historical (Im)Politeness
Relational linguistic practice over time and across cultures
Published on 7. November 2012
Book
Hardback
283 pages
978-90-272-0260-4 (ISBN)
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Exploring a largely uncharted territory of cultural history and linguistic ethnography, Understanding Historical (Im)Politeness offers in-depth analyses and perceptive interpretations of the conveyance of social-relational meaning in times (long) past and across historical cultures.
A collection of essays from the pens of authoritative historical (pragma)-linguistics researchers, the volume examines the forms and functions of historical (im)politeness, varying from single utterances and act sequences to fully-fledged (im)polite speech encounters and genres, with a focus on their period- and culture-bound appraisal. What is more, the book sheds light on what is still very dimly seen: diachronic trends in 'relational work' and the cultural-societal factors behind patterns of sociopragmatic change.
The volume reviews theoretical concepts, methods and analytical approaches to improve our present-day understanding of the historical understanding of relational practices of the distant as well as the more recent past. Since it includes newly established themes and positions and breaks new ground, this collection furthers considerably the field of historical (im)politeness research.
This volume was originally published as a special issue of Journal of Historical Pragmatics 12:1/2 (2011).
A collection of essays from the pens of authoritative historical (pragma)-linguistics researchers, the volume examines the forms and functions of historical (im)politeness, varying from single utterances and act sequences to fully-fledged (im)polite speech encounters and genres, with a focus on their period- and culture-bound appraisal. What is more, the book sheds light on what is still very dimly seen: diachronic trends in 'relational work' and the cultural-societal factors behind patterns of sociopragmatic change.
The volume reviews theoretical concepts, methods and analytical approaches to improve our present-day understanding of the historical understanding of relational practices of the distant as well as the more recent past. Since it includes newly established themes and positions and breaks new ground, this collection furthers considerably the field of historical (im)politeness research.
This volume was originally published as a special issue of Journal of Historical Pragmatics 12:1/2 (2011).
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Language
English
Place of publication
Amsterdam
Netherlands
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Dimensions
Height: 245 mm
Width: 164 mm
Weight
690 gr
ISBN-13
978-90-272-0260-4 (9789027202604)
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Relational linguistic practice over time and across cultures
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1. Articles; 2. The historical understanding of historical (im)politeness: Introduction (by Bax, Marcel); 3. 'Face' across historical cultures: A comparative study of Turkish and Chinese (by Ruhi, Sukriye); 4. Nineteenth-century English politeness: Negative politeness, conventional indirect requests and the rise of the individual self (by Culpeper, Jonathan); 5. "[T]his most unnecessary, unjust, and disgraceful war": Attacks on the Madison Administration in Federalist newspapers during the War of 1812 (by Rudanko, Juhani); 6. A socio-cognitive approach to historical politeness (by Watts, Richard J.); 7. From good manners to facework: Politeness variations and constants in France, from the classic age to today (by Kerbrat-Orecchioni, Catherine); 8. "Tumbled into the dirt": Wit and incivility in early modern England (by Withington, Phil); 9. Positive and negative face as descriptive categories in the history of English (by Jucker, Andreas H.); 10. Insults, violence, and the meaning of lytegian in the Old English Battle of Maldon (by Pakis, Valentine A.); 11. Understanding Anglo-Saxon "politeness": Directive constructions with ic wille / ic wolde (by Kohnen, Thomas); 12. An evolutionary take on (im)politeness: Three broad developments in the marking out of socio-proxemic space (by Bax, Marcel); 13. Notes on Contributors; 14. Index