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

Paternoster, Annick

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“…Jucker & Taavitsainen 2014), käytösoppaat (esim. Terkourafi 2011Paternoster 2019) ja nettikeskustelut (esim. Kleinke & Bös 2015).…”

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Miten tutkia kohteliaisuutta? Käsityksiä suomalaisesta ja ranskalaisesta kohteliaisuudesta

Isosävi

2023

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How to study politeness? Perceptions of Finnish and French politeness Politeness is a key means by which we maintain interpersonal relationships. This book is the first comprehensive study of politeness in Finnish. Based on linguistic and pragmatic research, the book spans three parts. The first part is theoretical and historical, summarising three waves of politeness research, describing politeness as a cultural and historical phenomenon. The second part is empirical, providing an example of the study of im/politeness from outsiders’ perspectives—that, is French people living in Finland and Finns living or having lived in France. The focus group discussions ranged from definitions of politeness and differences of behaviour, to learning and teaching as well as to changes to politeness norms within society. The third part summarises the conclusions and offers an epilogue. This reader-friendly book includes exercises and recommended readings, and is welcomed by researchers and students working on politeness and, more broadly, relational work.

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“…Jucker & Taavitsainen 2014), käytösoppaat (esim. Terkourafi 2011Paternoster 2019) ja nettikeskustelut (esim. Kleinke & Bös 2015).…”

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Miten tutkia kohteliaisuutta? Käsityksiä suomalaisesta ja ranskalaisesta kohteliaisuudesta

Isosävi

2023

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“…(Anon. 1826: 72-73) The attention given to the importance of speaking with elegance and avoiding vulgarities places this text at the intersection of etiquette manuals and codifying books, thus drawing attention to the fact that in Late Modern times politeness was not just a matter of pragmatic viability, but also an indispensable social accomplishment -see Paternoster (2019).…”

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Usage guides, social commentary and views on education in Late Modern Scotland

Dossena¹

2019

Brno Studies in English

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This contribution discusses two texts published at the height of Late Modern times (Mitchell 1799 and Anon. 1826), in order to trace the roots of well-established labels occurring in assessments of Scottish usage even to this day. 1 In particular, attention is paid to the qualifiers that the books employ both to stigmatize and to commend forms, so as to outline the kind of ideological stance they conveyed. The two relatively short books are now included in the Corpus of Modern Scottish Writing, and will be presented within the framework of that collection as significant instances of books circulating when linguistic self-consciousness affected both upwardly-mobile speakers and well-educated users. Models of correct usage were found to be useful tools for the acquisition or improvement of both social status and prestige-aims which still resonate with users today and the pragmatic value of which is only just beginning to be explored in a new light.

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“…Similarly, instructions for the bridal trousseau and for wedding wear are always very detailed. The main justification for this bonanza of fashion advice is to be found, not as much in moral values (although they are not completely disappearing), but rather in concerns for social distinction: the lady's clothes are truly a status symbol (on values in Italian etiquette books, see Paternoster, 2019). She advertises her husband's social status and wealth and it is important she never looks as if she were belonging to the nouveau riche, whose recently acquired wealth causes them to be guilty of bad, that is, ostentatious, taste.…”

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Il vestito forma la persona – “clothes make the man”: Fashion morality in Italian nineteenth-century conduct books

Paternoster

Saltamacchia

2019

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Using a corpus of 40 influential conduct books published in Italy in the long nineteenth century, we apply current insights in the role of values for the emergence and maintenance of conventions developed within the pragmatics of politeness to the prescriptive discourse on fashion, because in these sources norms for verbal and non-verbal behaviour are justified in a similar way. We argue that fashion choices are always said to communicate moral values. Most conduct books reinforce fashion norms by anchoring them in moral values because the authors expect their readers to be morally evaluated in terms of the clothes they wear. We will give an overview of rules regulating bodily hygiene, adornment, dress choice and fashion, and analyse which values are explicitly cited to justify the rules. The positive values such as diligence and parsimony show that fashion morality is seen as a means of self-improvement for the petty bourgeoisie whilst excesses (avarice and laziness on one end and vanity and frivolity on the other) lead to poverty. Our sources predominantly regulate fashion with personal, ego-centered values. This is markedly different from the current debate on sustainable fashion, led by social values such as compassion and altruism. With this historical paper we hope to contribute to the discussion of new approaches for the analysis of moralising discourse in fashion communication.

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

Cited by 10 publications

References 27 publications

Miten tutkia kohteliaisuutta? Käsityksiä suomalaisesta ja ranskalaisesta kohteliaisuudesta

Miten tutkia kohteliaisuutta? Käsityksiä suomalaisesta ja ranskalaisesta kohteliaisuudesta

Usage guides, social commentary and views on education in Late Modern Scotland

Il vestito forma la persona – “clothes make the man”: Fashion morality in Italian nineteenth-century conduct books

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