Marcel Bax
List of John Benjamins publications in which Marcel Bax is involved.
Journal
ISSN 1566-5852 | E‑ISSN 1569‑9854
Understanding Historical (Im)Politeness: Relational linguistic practice over time and across cultures
Edited by Marcel Bax and Dániel Z. Kádár
Exploring a largely uncharted territory of cultural history and linguistic ethnography, Understanding Historical (Im)Politeness offers in-depth analyses and perceptive interpretations of the conveyance of social-relational meaning in times (long) past and across historical cultures.A collection of… read more[Benjamins Current Topics, 41] 2012. vi, 283 pp.
Understanding Historical (Im)Politeness
Edited by Marcel Bax and Dániel Z. Kádár
Special issue of Journal of Historical Pragmatics 12:1/2 (2011) vi, 313 pp.
Ritual Language Behaviour
Edited by Marcel Bax
Special issue of Journal of Historical Pragmatics 4:2 (2003) iv, 185 pp.
Reflections on Language and Language Learning: In honour of Arthur van Essen
Edited by Marcel Bax and Jan-Wouter Zwart
In Reflections on Language and Language Learning: In honour of Arthur van Essen, thirty-one leading language scholars and educational linguists in the Netherlands and abroad with whom over the years Professor van Essen, one of the grandees of applied linguistics, has collaborated provide original… read more[Not in series, 109] 2001. xxxiv, 366 pp.
2012 An evolutionary take on (im)politeness: Three broad developments in the marking out of socio-proxemic space Understanding Historical (Im)Politeness: Relational linguistic practice over time and across cultures, Bax, Marcel and Dániel Z. Kádár (eds.), pp. 251–278 | Article
This paper is intended as an overall template of the evolution of (im)politeness. It elucidates how (linguistic) rapport management originated and developed over time, and tries to come to grips with (some of) the sociocultural factors behind such changes. Taking its point of departure in human… read more
2012 The historical understanding of historical (im)politeness: Introduction Understanding Historical (Im)Politeness: Relational linguistic practice over time and across cultures, Bax, Marcel and Dániel Z. Kádár (eds.), pp. 1–24 | Article
2011 An evolutionary take on (im)politeness: Three broad developments in the marking out of socio-proxemic space Understanding Historical (Im)Politeness, Bax, Marcel and Dániel Z. Kádár (eds.), pp. 255–282 | Article
This paper is intended as an overall template of the evolution of (im)politeness. It elucidates how (linguistic) rapport management originated and developed over time, and tries to come to grips with (some of) the sociocultural factors behind such changes. Taking its point of departure in human… read more
2011 The historical understanding of historical (im)politeness: Introductory notes Understanding Historical (Im)Politeness, Bax, Marcel and Dániel Z. Kádár (eds.), pp. 1–24 | Article
2003 Ritual modes, ritual minds: Introduction to the special issue on ritual language behaviour Ritual Language Behaviour, Bax, Marcel (ed.), pp. 159–170 | Article
2003 Civil rites: Ritual politeness in early modern Dutch letter-writing Ritual Language Behaviour, Bax, Marcel (ed.), pp. 303–325 | Article
We shall be concerned with a mode of epistolary politeness that marks a special category of ritual language use. Taking examples from the correspondence between Hooft and Huygens, two notable representatives of the Dutch Republic’s cultural elite, we will establish, first, that the notions and… read more
2002 Rites of rivalry: Ritual interaction and the emergence of indirect language use Journal of Historical Pragmatics 3:1, pp. 61–106 | Article
The indirect conveyance of functional meaning is a conspicuous and thoroughly studied characteristic of contemporary linguistic practice. Even so, in addition to seeming “something natural” indirect language use appears to be a universally spread phenomenon, and both factors may have caused… read more
2001 Historical frame analysis: Hoaxing and make-believe in a seventeenth-century Dutch play Journal of Historical Pragmatics 2:1, pp. 33–67 | Article
In this article, I am concerned with the historical dimension of frame analysis, aiming at an appraisal of the general significance of this method if applied to historical linguistic data, in particular instances of oral or written discourse transmitted from the past. In order to demonstrate how… read more
1999 Ritual Levelling: The Balance between the Eristic and the Contractual Motive in Hostile verbal Encounters in Medieval
Romance and Early Modern Drama Historical Dialogue Analysis, Jucker, Andreas H., Gerd Fritz and Franz Lebsanft (eds.), pp. 35–80 | Article