Politeness in nineteenth-century Europe / edited by Annick Paternoster, Università della Svizzera italiana ; Susan Fitzmaurice, University of Sheffield.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Paternoster, Annick, editor.

Fitzmaurice, Susan M., editor.

Series:

Pragmatics & beyond ; new ser., 299.

Pragmatics & beyond new series (P&BNS), 0922-842X ; volume 299

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Politeness (Linguistics)--Europe.

Politeness (Linguistics).

Grammar, Comparative and general--Honorific.

Grammar, Comparative and general.

Europe.

Physical Description:

vi, 228 pages : illustrations (some color), maps ; 25 cm.

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Publishing Company, [2019]

Summary:

This volume explores a pivotal period in European history, the 'long' nineteenth century. Politeness scholars have suggested that the nineteenth century heralds a significant transition in the meanings and realisations of politeness, between the Ancien Regime and the contemporary period, with the rise of the middle classes as economic, political, social and cultural actors.0The central innovation of this volume consists in its use of a wide range of politeness metasources - grammar books, schoolbooks, conduct books, etiquette books, and letter-writing manuals - to access social norms. This interdisciplinary approach, which draws on historical linguistics, argumentation theory, appraisal theory and literary stylistics, is applied to a wide range of languages: English, including Scottish and business English, Italian, Spanish, West and South Slavic languages.

Contents:

Politeness in nineteenth-century Europe, a research agenda / Annick Paternoster and Susan Fitzmaurice

Politeness metadiscourse. Address forms in grammars and textbooks of West and South Slavic languages in the eighteenth and nineteenth century / Michael Betsch

The nuovo galateo ("New Galateo", 1802) by Melchiorre Gioja: politeness (pulitezza) and reason / Francesca Saltamacchia and Andrea Rocci

Politeness and evaluative adjectives in Italian turn-of-the-century etiquette books (1877-1914) / Annick Paternoster

Politeness usage. Commitment fulfillment and politeness: commissive speech acts in colonial Louisiana Spanish / Jeremy King

Promoting negative politeness in nineteenth-century England: the case of letter-writing manuals / Polina Shvanyukova

Politeness in nineteenth-century Europe. "With kindest regards": relational work, social identity and (hyper)politeness in late modern English documents / Marina Dossena.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Online version: Politeness in nineteenth-century Europe.

ISBN:

9789027201997

9027201994

OCLC:

1053905069