Christel Björkstrand

List of John Benjamins publications in which Christel Björkstrand is involved.

Article

Björkstrand, Christel 2013 Politeness and social utopia in Friedrich Schiller’s Wilhelm Tell Literary Linguistics, Müller-Wood, Anja (ed.), pp. 34–55 | Article

This paper is an interdisciplinary analysis of Friedrich Schiller’s play Wilhelm Tell (1804). An initial study of its dramatic structure suggests a change in the relationship between the Swiss peasants and nobles. A further analysis, based on Brown’s and Levinson’s politeness theory confirms the… read more