Manners, norms and transgressions in the history of English : literary and linguistic approaches /

"This volume traces the multifaceted concept of manners in the history of English from the late medieval through the early and late modern periods right up to the present day. It focuses in particular on transgressions of manners and norms of behaviour as an analytical tool to shed light on the...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Jucker, Andreas H. (Editor ), Taavitsainen, Irma (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Publishing Company, [2020]
Colección:Pragmatics & beyond ; new ser., 312.
Temas:
Politeness (Linguistics)
English language > Semantics.
English language > History.
Courtesy in literature.
Etiquette in literature.
English literature > History and criticism.
Grammar, Comparative and general > Honorific.
Formules de politesse.
Savoir-vivre dans la littérature.
Littérature anglaise > Histoire et critique.
Grammar, Comparative and general > Honorific
Courtesy in literature
English language
English language > Semantics
English literature
Etiquette in literature
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Intro
  • Manners, Norms and Transgressions in the History of English
  • Editorial page
  • Title page
  • Copyright page
  • Table of contents
  • Preface
  • Manners, norms and transgressions: Introduction
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. Three waves of politeness theory
  • 3. The diachrony of manners and politeness
  • 4. Norms, blunders and transgressions
  • 5. Literary and linguistic approaches to data analysis
  • 6. Conclusion
  • Primary sources
  • Corpora and dictionaries
  • References
  • 'Ipomedon' and the elusive nature of blunders in the courtly literature of medieval England
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. The tale of Ipomedon as a succession of blunders
  • 2.1 The incident with the boteler
  • 2.2 The Proud One's blunder
  • 2.3 Ipomedon the troublemaker
  • 3. The evolution of politeness strategies in the Middle English retellings of Fr. 'Ipomedon'
  • 3.1 The refashioning of minor transgressions
  • 3.2 The reinvention of Ipomedon as a fallible human being 'and' a model of courtly values
  • 4. Conclusion
  • Sources
  • Dictionaries
  • References
  • Unrestrained acting and norms of behaviour: Excess and instruction in 'The Legend of Good Women'
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. 'Exempla' and the idea of good women
  • 3. The representation of despicable actions
  • 4. The legend of Thisbe
  • 5. The legend of Lucretia
  • 6. Conclusions: Unrestrained gestures as norms of behaviour
  • Sources
  • References
  • Blunders and (un)intentional offence in Shakespeare
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. Blunders: Pragmatic description and their effects
  • 2.1 Blunders as FTAs
  • 2.2 Blunders, intentionality and impoliteness
  • 2.3 Blunders as speech acts: Illocutionary force and unintentional perlocutionary effects
  • 2.3.1 Embarrassment and embarrassability
  • 2.3.2 Humour
  • 3. Blunders in 'The Merry Wives of Windsor' and 'King Henry IV, Parts 1' and '2'
  • 3.1 Mistress Quickly
  • 3.2 Falstaff
  • 4. Concluding remarks
  • Acknowledgements
  • Sources
  • References
  • The discourse of manners and politeness in Restoration and eighteenth-century drama
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. The vocabulary of manners and politeness
  • 3. The discourse of manners and politeness
  • 4. Discussion and conclusion
  • Editions
  • Corpora and dictionaries
  • References
  • "This Demon Anger": Politeness, conversation and control in eighteenth-century conduct books for young women
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. Self-control and individualism: The link with conduct
  • 3. The discourse of conduct: Readers, writers, and ideals
  • 4. Conduct books and the display of anger
  • 5. Avoiding anger
  • 6. Conclusion
  • Sources
  • References
  • A medical debate of "heated pamphleteering" in the early eighteenth century
  • 1. Conflict discourse in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries
  • 2. Data, research questions and methods
  • 3. The pragmatic space of aggressive language use
  • 4. A brief history of smallpox literature
  • 5. Main protagonists and what they wrote

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