Polina Shvanyukova
List of John Benjamins publications in which Polina Shvanyukova is involved.
Articles
2020 Transgressions as a socialisation strategy in Samuel Richardson’s The Apprentice’s Vade Mecum (1734) Manners, Norms and Transgressions in the History of English: Literary and linguistic approaches, Jucker, Andreas H. and Irma Taavitsainen (eds.), pp. 165–182 | Chapter
Conduct manuals disseminating norms of behaviour were popular in Early and Late Modern England. In this contribution I offer a close reading of an influential eighteenth-century conduct manual for newly apprenticed boys, Samuel Richardson’s The Apprentice’s Vade Mecum (Richardson 2012[1734]). In… read more
2019 Chapter 5. Promoting negative politeness in nineteenth-century England: The case of letter-writing manuals Politeness in Nineteenth-Century Europe, Paternoster, Annick and Susan Fitzmaurice (eds.), pp. 171–196 | Chapter
In this contribution I investigate linguistic strategies of making requests employed in a corpus of nineteenth-century letter-writing manuals in English (Sadler 1835; Cooke 1850 [1770]; Cann 1878; Penholder 1890). The aim of the study is to establish whether linguistic prescriptions recommended to… read more