The historical understanding of historical (im)politeness

Bax, Marcel; Kádár, Dániel Z.

doi:10.1075/bct.41.01bax

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“…Kohnen 2008;Bax 2010;Held 2010), historical (im)politeness may also be addressed within a framework based on the Wattsian distinction into the "politic" (what is appropriate in a given context) versus the "polite" (beyond what is appropriate; first proposed in Watts 1989;cf. Vilkki 2006;Kádár and Culpeper 2010;Bax and Kádár 2011;cf. also O'Driscoll 2010).…”

Section: Petitions and Politenessmentioning

confidence: 98%

1820 Settler petitions in the Cape Colony

Włodarczyk

2013

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The received view has it that the language of petitions aims at elevating the addressee and demeaning the author. Recent studies into historical (im)politeness interpret it as epistolary facework, i.e. "politic" rather than "polite" behaviour (Bax 2010). Drawing on evidence of the genre dynamics present in nineteenthcentury petitions, this paper proposes that for a number of petitioners the conventionalised expression of deference could not have been their main motivation. Through close study of the structural models and their distribution in two collections of petitions related to British settlement in the Cape Colony (1819-1825), the study proposes an account for changes in users' preferences in this respect. The discussion employs Luckmann's (2009) theory of "communicative genres" and "projects", which allows one to reach beyond the textual evidence to the dimension of verbal interaction. The paper also focuses on the materiality of historical genres (cf. Barton and Hall 2000).

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Section: Petitions and Politenessmentioning

confidence: 98%

1820 Settler petitions in the Cape Colony

Włodarczyk

2013

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“…After a short section on the ideology of Scotticisms, I will devote a few thoughts to recent research on historical (im)politeness as developed by Culpeper (2011), Culpeper and Demmen (2011), Bax and Kádár (2011), Rudanko (2006Rudanko ( , 2011Rudanko ( , 2017, Mills (2004Mills ( , 2011, Fitzmaurice (2010), and Agha (2003), touching on another cornerstone of Englishness in the second half of the eighteenth century, the 4th Earl of Chesterfield's Letters to His Son (1774). Here, Chesterfield provides advice on language style and good manners as marks of high class.…”

Section: Introduction: the Politics Of Englishness In Early Nineteentmentioning

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Pragmatics and Literature

Chapman

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2019

Linguistic Approaches to Literature

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“…Recent research has brought to light pragmatic and sociolinguistic aspects of language in history. (Im)politeness, a system of verbal behaviours to pay attention to another person's facial wants, is certainly a topic in this area, and it is only recently that (im)politeness in the history of English has been seriously discussed (Brown & Gilman 1989;Kopytko 1993Kopytko , 1995Rudanko 2006;Jucker 2008;Kohnen 2008;Culpeper & Kádár 2010;Nevala 2010;Bax & Kádár 2011;Jucker 2011Jucker , 2012. I will start the discussion by offering the following examples from Shakespeare's plays:…”

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Modals, Speech Acts and (Im)Politeness: Interactions in Shakespeare’s Plays

Nakayasu

2013

Studia Anglica Posnaniensia

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This paper accounts for how modals are interrelated with speech acts and (im)politeness, to offer a new perspective to the interactions in Shakespeare’s plays. A variety of strategies to save or attack the hearer’s positive or negative face are taken into account within the frameworks of Brown & Levinson (1987) and Culpeper (1996), and the interplay between these strategies is observed in relation to the modals. Furthermore, this study analyses how speech acts performed with the aid of modals are associated with (im)politeness strategies, based on the inventory of speech acts proposed by Nakayasu (2009). It has been shown that there are more strategies to save or attack the hearer’s positive face in Shakespeare which are employed with the use of modals. The analysis reinforces the proposal by Kopytko (1993, 1995) that social interactions in Shakespeare’s time were positive politenessoriented, going further to extend the analysis to impoliteness, and suggests the interrelated nature of modality, speech acts and (im)politeness.

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The historical understanding of historical (im)politeness

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1820 Settler petitions in the Cape Colony

1820 Settler petitions in the Cape Colony

Pragmatics and Literature

Modals, Speech Acts and (Im)Politeness: Interactions in Shakespeare’s Plays

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