Understanding Historical (Im)Politeness

Special issue of Journal of Historical Pragmatics 12:1/2 (2011)

Editors

Marcel Bax | University of Groningen

Dániel Z. Kádár | Hungarian Academy of Sciences

[Journal of Historical Pragmatics, 12:1/2] 2011. vi, 313 pp.

Publishing status: Available
Published online on 7 June 2011

https://doi.org/10.1075/jhp.12.1-2

Table of Contents

Articles
The historical understanding of historical (im)politeness: Introductory notes Marcel Bax and Dániel Z. Kádár	1–24
‘Face’ across historical cultures: A comparative study of Turkish and Chinese Şükriye Ruhi and Dániel Z. Kádár	25–48
Nineteenth-century English politeness: Negative politeness, conventional indirect requests and the rise of the individual self Jonathan Culpeper and Jane Demmen	49–81
“[T]his most unnecessary, unjust, and disgraceful war” Attacks on the Madison Administration in Federalist newspapers during the War of 1812 Juhani Rudanko	82–103
A socio-cognitive approach to historical politeness Richard J. Watts	104–132
From good manners to facework: Politeness variations and constants in France, from the classic age to today Catherine Kerbrat-Orecchioni	133–155
“Tumbled into the dirt” Wit and incivility in early modern England Phil Withington	156–177
Positive and negative face as descriptive categories in the history of English Andreas H. Jucker	178–197
Insults, violence, and the meaning of lytegian in the Old English Battle of Maldon Valentine A. Pakis	198–229
Understanding Anglo-Saxon “politeness” Directive constructions with ic wille / ic wolde Thomas Kohnen	230–254
An evolutionary take on (im)politeness: Three broad developments in the marking out of socio-proxemic space Marcel Bax	255–282
Reviews
Review of Gotti, Dossena & Dury (2008): English Historical Linguistics 2006. Volume I: Syntax and Morphology & Dury, Gotti & Dossena (2008): English Historical Linguistics 2006. Volume II: Lexical and Semantic Change & Dossena, Gotti & Dury (2008): English Historical Linguistics 2006. Volume III: Geo-Historical Variation in English Reviewed by Elena Seoane	283–293
Review of Mazzon (2009): Interactive Dialogue Sequences in Middle English Drama Reviewed by Hans-Jürgen Diller	294–299
Review of Peikola, Skaffari & Tanskanen (2009): Instructional Writing in English: Studies in Honour of Risto Hiltunen Reviewed by Birte Bös	300–305
Review of Nakayasu (2009): The Pragmatics of Modals in Shakespeare Reviewed by Ulrich Busse	306–308
Review of Jucker (2009): Early Modern English News Discourse. Newspapers, Pamphlets and Scientific News Discourse Reviewed by Carol Percy	309–313

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Linguistics

Discourse studies

Historical linguistics

Pragmatics