Using the devil with courtesy : Shakespeare and the language of (im)politeness / Bianca Del Villano.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Del Villano, Bianca, author.

Series:

Linguistic insights ; v. 253.

Linguistic Insights ; Volume 253

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616--Knowledge and learning--Manners and customs.

Shakespeare, William.

Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616.

Manners and customs.

Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616--Criticism and interpretation.

Criticism and interpretation.

Courtesy in literature.

Genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Physical Description:

196 pages ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Bern : Peter Lang, [2018]

Summary:

Renaissance England was marked by a pervasive culture of courtesy. The research hypothesis of this book is that verbal courtesy, for historical and social reasons involving social mobility and the crisis produced by the clash between different systems of thought (Humanism, Catholicism, Protestantism, new scientific discourses), soon became strategic language, characterised by specific forms of facework detectable through the patterns of politeness and impoliteness employed by speakers. 0Adopting a historical pragmatic perspective, Using the Devil with Courtesy semantically and conceptually connects courtesy and (im)politeness to analyse Renaissance forms of (im)politeness through Shakespeare. Drawing on a methodological line of research running from Goffman (1967) and Grice (1967), to Brown and Levinson (1987), Jucker (2010) and Culpeper (2011), the book focuses specifically on Hamlet (c. 1601) and The Taming of the Shrew (c. 1594) with three principal aims: 1) to survey the (im)polite strategies used by the characters; 2) to explore how this language connects to a specific Renaissance subjectivity; 3) to link language and subjectivity to extra-textual (historical and semiotic) factors.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9783034323154

3034323158

OCLC:

1079857544

Publisher Number:

99982483420