Annick Paternoster

List of John Benjamins publications in which Annick Paternoster is involved.

Titles

Politeness in and across Historical Europe

Edited by Annick Paternoster, Gudrun Held and Dániel Z. Kádár

Special issue of Journal of Historical Pragmatics 24:1 (2023) vi, 216 pp.

Politeness in Nineteenth-Century Europe

Edited by Annick Paternoster and Susan Fitzmaurice

This volume explores a pivotal period in European history, the ‘long’ nineteenth century. Politeness scholars have suggested that the nineteenth century heralds a significant transition in the meanings and realisations of politeness, between the Ancien Régime and the contemporary period, with the… read more

[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 299] 2019. vii, 288 pp.

Kádár, Dániel Z., Gudrun Held and Annick Paternoster 2023 Introduction: Politeness in and across Historical Europe Politeness in and across Historical Europe, Paternoster, Annick, Gudrun Held and Dániel Z. Kádár (eds.), pp. 1–15 | Introduction

Paternoster, Annick 2023 The codification of nineteenth-century etiquette: On politeness, morality, rituals and discernment Politeness in and across Historical Europe, Paternoster, Annick, Gudrun Held and Dániel Z. Kádár (eds.), pp. 160–178 | Article

Etiquette has only marginally attracted the attention of politeness scholars. This article aims to fill a knowledge gap as it explores the concept in a more systematic way, using nineteenth-century prescriptive metasources from four countries (Britain, France, Italy and the United States).… read more

Paternoster, Annick 2019 Chapter 3. Politeness and evaluative adjectives in Italian turn-of-the-century etiquette books (1877–1914) Politeness in Nineteenth-Century Europe, Paternoster, Annick and Susan Fitzmaurice (eds.), pp. 107–144 | Chapter

This study examines evaluative adjectives and politeness evaluators in 9 popular etiquette books published in turn-of-the-century Italy between 1877–1914, with the aim to determine the values that are involved in the judgement of behaviour. Using Appraisal Theory (Martin & White 2005), I group… read more

Paternoster, Annick and Susan Fitzmaurice 2019 Politeness in nineteenth-century Europe, a research agenda Politeness in Nineteenth-Century Europe, Paternoster, Annick and Susan Fitzmaurice (eds.), pp. 1–36 | Chapter

Kádár, Dániel Z. and Annick Paternoster 2015 Historicity in metapragmatics – a study on ‘discernment’ in Italian metadiscourse Pragmatics 25:3, pp. 369–391 | Article

The present paper contributes to meta pragmatics, by examining the question of how historicity influences the validity of certain modern meta terms that are accepted as ‘neutral’ and ‘scientific’ in pragmatics. We argue that it is fundamental to explore the history and development of such meta… read more