Historical (Im)politeness (Linguistic Insights) Paperback - 2010 - 1st Edition
by Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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This edited collection investigates historical linguistic politeness and impoliteness. Although some research has been undertaken uniting politeness and historical pragmatics, it has been sporadic at best, and often limited to traditional theoretical approaches. This is a strange state of affairs, because politeness plays a central role in the social dynamics of language. This collection, containing contributions from renowned experts, aims to fill this hiatus, bringing together cutting-edge research. Not only does it illuminate the language usage of earlier periods, but by examining the past it places politeness today in context. Such a diachronic perspective also affords a further test-bed for current models of politeness. This volume provides insights into historical aspects of language, particularly items regularly deployed for politeness functions, and the social, particularly interpersonal, contexts with which it interacts. It also sheds light on how (social) meanings are dynamically constructed in situ, and probes various theoretical aspects of politeness. Its papers deploy a range of multilingual (e.g. English, Spanish, Italian and Chinese) diachronic data drawn from different genres such as letters, dramas, witch trials and manners books.
Details
- Title Historical (Im)politeness (Linguistic Insights)
- Author Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
- Binding Paperback
- Edition number 1st
- Edition 1
- Publisher Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
- Date 2010-03
- Features Bibliography, Index
- ISBN 9783039114962
About the author
Dniel Z. Kdr is a research fellow in the Department of Oriental Studies at Research Institute for Linguistics, Hungarian Academy of Sciences. He has been carrying out research into East Asian (im)politeness, discourse analysis, historical pragmatics and letter writing. His major publications include Terms of (Im)Politeness (2007), It's the Dragon's Turn (2008, edited with Hao Sun), Historical Chinese Letter Writing (2009), Politeness in East Asia (2010, edited with Sara Mills), Politeness in Historical and Contemporary Chinese (2010, co-authored with Yuling Pan) and Politeness across Cultures (2010, edited with Francesca Bargiela-Chiappini).
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