Urszula Kizelbach
List of John Benjamins publications in which Urszula Kizelbach is involved.
Articles
2024 The pragmatics of royal discourse in William Shakespeare’s Henry vi
Journal of Historical Pragmatics 25:1, pp. 1–32 | Article
Politeness (Brown and Gilman 1989; Rudanko 1993; Kopytko 1995) and impoliteness (Culpeper 1996, 2001; Bousfield 2007) have a prominent place in the reading of Shakespearean drama and serve as a means of characterisation. In this study, I utilise (im)politeness and face theory to characterise the… read more
2020 Blunders and (un)intentional offence in Shakespeare Manners, Norms and Transgressions in the History of English: Literary and linguistic approaches, Jucker, Andreas H. and Irma Taavitsainen (eds.), pp. 75–99 | Chapter
Neither literary nor linguistic investigations seem to offer a clear pragmatic description of blunder. Blunders in social communication are popularly associated with gaffes, which are incidental offences that could have been avoided if the speaker had foreseen their offensive or perplexing… read more