Politeness in and across Historical Europe
Special issue of the Journal of Historical Pragmatics 24:1 (2023)
Editors
Dániel Z. Kádár | Dalian University of Foreign Languages / Hungarian Research Centre for Linguistics
[Journal of Historical Pragmatics, 24:1] 2023. vi, 216 pp.
Publishing status: Available
Published online on 8 June 2023
Published online on 8 June 2023
© John Benjamins Publishing Company
Table of Contents
- Introduction: Politeness in and across Historical EuropeDániel Z. Kádár, Gudrun Held & Annick Paternoster | pp. 1–15
- Cicero’s De Officiis, politeness and modern conduct manualsJon Hall | pp. 16–31
- Facetus and the birth of “European” politenessLuis Unceta Gómez | pp. 32–48
- A culture of “pleasing”? Conceptual observations on the development of European “politeness” behaviour between aesthetics and ethicsGudrun Held | pp. 49–67
- Diplomatic letters from the Republic of Ragusa in the fifteenth century: (Im)politeness strategies in diplomatic epistolary discourseAna Lalić | pp. 68–85
- German and Romance civility in contact: Retracing Early Modern European dynamics of polite address through historical foreign language manualsLinda Gennies | pp. 86–104
- A European model of polite conversation? Della Casa, Gioia and KniggeGiovanna Alfonzetti | pp. 105–123
- Ritual and modern “politeness” in the Romanian Principalities during the Phanariot periodMihaela-Viorica Constantinescu | pp. 124–142
- Historical language use in Europe from a contrastive pragmatic perspective: An exploratory case study of letter closingsJuliane House, Dániel Z. Kádár, Fengguang Liu & Wenrui Shi | pp. 143–159
- The codification of nineteenth-century etiquette: On politeness, morality, rituals and discernmentAnnick Paternoster | pp. 160–178
- The informalisation of address practice in Swedish in a historical perspectiveMaria Fremer | pp. 179–197
- Historical changes in politeness norms: Are Finnish and French conceptions of politeness moving closer to each other?Johanna Isosävi | pp. 198–216
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