Valentine A. Pakis
List of John Benjamins publications in which Valentine A. Pakis is involved.
2012 Insults, violence, and the meaning of lytegian in the Old English Battle of Maldon Understanding Historical (Im)Politeness: Relational linguistic practice over time and across cultures, Bax, Marcel and Dániel Z. Kádár (eds.), pp. 195–226 | Article
The history of impoliteness — of which insults are a part — and violence are intertwined. In medieval Germanic cultural history, this link manifests itself in historical-pragmatic contexts such as sennur, whettings, and flyting-to-fighting scenarios, which are surveyed in this paper. The… read more
2011 Insults, violence, and the meaning of lytegian in the Old English Battle of Maldon Understanding Historical (Im)Politeness, Bax, Marcel and Dániel Z. Kádár (eds.), pp. 198–229 | Article
The history of impoliteness — of which insults are a part — and violence are intertwined. In medieval Germanic cultural history, this link manifests itself in historical-pragmatic contexts such as sennur, whettings, and flyting-to-fighting scenarios, which are surveyed in this paper. The… read more
2010 Praesens Historicum and the Question of Old Latin Influence on the Gothic Bible NOWELE Volume 58/59 (June 2010): The Gothic Language, Nielsen, Hans Frede † and Flemming Talbo Stubkjær (eds.), pp. 239–254 | Article
2009 Greek Κἐνταυρος and the Names of the Second Rune NOWELE Volume 56/57 (June 2009), pp. 143–162 | Article