24018660 03 01 01 JB code JB John Benjamins Publishing Company 01 JB code P&bns 299 Eb 15 9789027263056 06 10.1075/pbns.299 13 2018061022 00 EA E107 10 01 JB code P&bns 02 0922-842X 02 299.00 01 02 Pragmatics & Beyond New Series Pragmatics & Beyond New Series 11 01 JB code jbe-all 01 02 Full EBA collection (ca. 4,200 titles) 11 01 JB code jbe-eba-2023 01 02 Compact EBA Collection 2023 (ca. 700 titles, starting 2018) 11 01 JB code jbe-2019 01 02 2019 collection (119 titles) 05 02 2019 collection 01 01 Politeness in Nineteenth-Century Europe Politeness in Nineteenth-Century Europe 1 B01 01 JB code 665325652 Annick Paternoster Paternoster, Annick Annick Paternoster Università della Svizzera italiana 07 https://benjamins.com/catalog/persons/665325652 2 B01 01 JB code 193325653 Susan Fitzmaurice Fitzmaurice, Susan Susan Fitzmaurice University of Sheffield 07 https://benjamins.com/catalog/persons/193325653 01 eng 11 236 03 03 vii 03 00 288 03 01 23 401/.452 03 2019 P299.H66 04 Politeness (Linguistics)--Europe. 04 Grammar, Comparative and general--Honorific. 10 LAN009030 12 CFG 24 JB code LIN.DISC Discourse studies 24 JB code LIN.HL Historical linguistics 24 JB code LIN.PRAG Pragmatics 01 06 02 00 This volume explores a pivotal period in European history, the ‘long’ nineteenth century. The central innovation of this volume consists in its use of a wide range of politeness metasources — grammar books, schoolbooks, conduct books, etiquette books, and letter-writing manuals — to access social norms. 03 00 This volume explores a pivotal period in European history, the ‘long’ nineteenth century. Politeness scholars have suggested that the nineteenth century heralds a significant transition in the meanings and realisations of politeness, between the Ancien Régime and the contemporary period, with the rise of the middle classes as economic, political, social and cultural actors.
The central innovation of this volume consists in its use of a wide range of politeness metasources — grammar books, schoolbooks, conduct books, etiquette books, and letter-writing manuals — to access social norms. This interdisciplinary approach, which draws on historical linguistics, argumentation theory, appraisal theory and literary stylistics, is applied to a wide range of languages: English, including Scottish and business English, Italian, Spanish, West and South Slavic languages.
As a highly coherent collection of innovative research papers, the volume will be welcomed by researchers of (im)politeness, pragmatics and sociolinguistics, both from a historical and contemporary perspective.
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01 01 JB code pbns.299.ack 06 10.1075/pbns.299.ack vii viii 2 Miscellaneous 1 01 04 Acknowledgements Acknowledgements 01 01 JB code pbns.299.01pat 06 10.1075/pbns.299.01pat 1 36 36 Chapter 2 01 04 Politeness in nineteenth-century Europe, a research agenda Politeness in nineteenth-century Europe, a research agenda 1 A01 01 JB code 738348610 Annick Paternoster Paternoster, Annick Annick Paternoster Università della Svizzera italiana 07 https://benjamins.com/catalog/persons/738348610 2 A01 01 JB code 916348611 Susan Fitzmaurice Fitzmaurice, Susan Susan Fitzmaurice University of Sheffield 07 https://benjamins.com/catalog/persons/916348611 01 01 JB code pbns.299.p1 06 10.1075/pbns.299.p1 Section header 3 01 04 Part I. Politeness metadiscourse Part I. Politeness metadiscourse 01 01 JB code pbns.299.02bet 06 10.1075/pbns.299.02bet 39 74 36 Chapter 4 01 04 Chapter 1. Address forms in grammars and textbooks of West and South Slavic languages in the eighteenth and nineteenth century Chapter 1. Address forms in grammars and textbooks of West and South Slavic languages in the eighteenth and nineteenth century 1 A01 01 JB code 724348612 Michael Betsch Betsch, Michael Michael Betsch Independent scholar, Vienna 07 https://benjamins.com/catalog/persons/724348612 03 00

This contribution studies address forms in grammars and textbooks of several West and South Slavic languages of the eighteenth and nineteenth century, especially in the pedagogical dialogues that accompany these works. The languages in focus had been using several address forms borrowed from German (or Italian), and due to the efforts of linguistic purism, these borrowings were eliminated in the nineteenth century. The result is in all those languages a system of address pronouns consisting of the second person singular and plural. The purist efforts were motivated by the wish of restoring an older language form, or to approach an imagined ideal type of Slavic language; they are an effect of the national movements of these non-dominant ethnic groups (National Revival).

01 01 JB code pbns.299.03sal 06 10.1075/pbns.299.03sal 75 106 32 Chapter 5 01 04 Chapter 2. The Nuovo Galateo (`New Galateo', 1802) by Melchiorre Gioja, politeness (pulitezza) and reason Chapter 2. The Nuovo Galateo (‘New Galateo’, 1802) by Melchiorre Gioja, politeness (pulitezza) and reason 1 A01 01 JB code 280348613 Francesca Saltamacchia Saltamacchia, Francesca Francesca Saltamacchia Università della Svizzera italiana 07 https://benjamins.com/catalog/persons/280348613 2 A01 01 JB code 388348614 Andrea Rocci Rocci, Andrea Andrea Rocci Università della Svizzera italiana 07 https://benjamins.com/catalog/persons/388348614 03 00

In 1802 Melchiorre Gioja published the Nuovo Galateo (‘New Galateo’), a treatise that supplants the aristocratic model based on conventional ceremonies with a model based on ragione sociale ‘social reason’. The word and its morphological derived lexemes play an important role in the argumentative architecture of the treatise. We hypothesize that reason can be considered an argumentative keyword of the treatise, i.e. a word that evokes beliefs and values that function as endoxa. We examine the collocations and the constructions in which ragione and its derived lexemes enter, and we demonstrate how different key-constructions based on ragione are used to argumentatively justify politeness evaluations. This investigation not only confirms the argumentative keyness of the reason-related constructions, but also casts light on the utilitarian nature of the social reason underlying Gioja’s view of politeness.

01 01 JB code pbns.299.04pat 06 10.1075/pbns.299.04pat 107 144 38 Chapter 6 01 04 Chapter 3. Politeness and evaluative adjectives in Italian turn-of-the-century etiquette books (1877-1914) Chapter 3. Politeness and evaluative adjectives in Italian turn-of-the-century etiquette books (1877–1914) 1 A01 01 JB code 160348615 Annick Paternoster Paternoster, Annick Annick Paternoster Università della Svizzera italiana 07 https://benjamins.com/catalog/persons/160348615 03 00

This study examines evaluative adjectives and politeness evaluators in 9 popular etiquette books published in turn-of-the-century Italy between 1877–1914, with the aim to determine the values that are involved in the judgement of behaviour. Using Appraisal Theory (Martin & White 2005), I group positive evaluative adjectives in the following semantic sets: Normality, Capacity, Tenacity, Veracity and Politeness. Politeness comprises the subsets Conformity, Affection, Goodness and Pleasure. The paper establishes diversity and frequencies within the various lexical sets, which are used to design a conceptual map. The map shows the dominating ideological weight of etiquette and its core values of Normality and Conformity, which point towards intensely regulated behaviour in a large number of contexts.

01 01 JB code pbns.299.p2 06 10.1075/pbns.299.p2 Section header 7 01 04 Part II. Politeness usage Part II. Politeness usage 01 01 JB code pbns.299.05kin 06 10.1075/pbns.299.05kin 147 170 24 Chapter 8 01 04 Chapter 4. Commitment fulfillment and politeness Chapter 4. Commitment fulfillment and politeness 01 04 Commissive speech acts in colonial Louisiana Spanish Commissive speech acts in colonial Louisiana Spanish 1 A01 01 JB code 945348616 Jeremy King King, Jeremy Jeremy King Louisiana State University 07 https://benjamins.com/catalog/persons/945348616 03 00

The present study investigates commissive speech acts in the Spanish colony of Louisiana in order to present insight into Spain’s perspective on linguistic politeness in light of European regime change during the period of the French Revolution. The corpus chosen for the current study consists of 200 institutional letters penned by Spaniards in the North American colony in the last quarter of the eighteenth century. I argue that owing to their frequent mitigation commissives should not be understood as intrinsically polite speech acts. I tentatively posit that, due to evident changes in linguistic strategy employed by Louisiana Spaniards, colonial North America felt the effects of the revolutionary fervor.

01 01 JB code pbns.299.06shv 06 10.1075/pbns.299.06shv 171 196 26 Chapter 9 01 04 Chapter 5. Promoting negative politeness in nineteenth-century England Chapter 5. Promoting negative politeness in nineteenth-century England 01 04 The case of letter-writing manuals The case of letter-writing manuals 1 A01 01 JB code 300348617 Polina Shvanyukova Shvanyukova, Polina Polina Shvanyukova Università degli Studi di Bergamo 07 https://benjamins.com/catalog/persons/300348617 03 00

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 the users of the manuals reflect the contemporary shift towards negative politeness in English, as claimed in previous studies (Culpeper & Demmen 2012; Jucker 2012). The inventory of lexico-grammatical forms used to make requests will be devised by collecting examples from the sections of the manuals dedicated to commercial correspondence. The analysis of the examples reveals that the repertoire of strategies of making requests was vast, including categories such as modulated direct requests, as well as modulated indirect requests. The findings are discussed in the light of current politeness theories.

01 01 JB code pbns.299.07dos 06 10.1075/pbns.299.07dos 197 218 22 Chapter 10 01 04 Chapter 6. "With kindest regards" Chapter 6. “With kindest regards” 01 04 Relational work, social identity and (hyper)politeness in Late Modern English documents Relational work, social identity and (hyper)politeness in Late Modern English documents 1 A01 01 JB code 397348618 Marina Dossena Dossena, Marina Marina Dossena Università degli Studi di Bergamo 07 https://benjamins.com/catalog/persons/397348618 03 00

In Late Modern times, both usage guides and letter-writing manuals commented on language etiquette, providing guidance on how to address specific recipients according to their rank, age, and gender, how to approach certain topics, and how to convey mutual status relying exclusively on language. Guides and manuals, however, cannot always be assumed to be accurate representations of what actually occurred in usage. In this contribution I intend to investigate these materials alongside authentic ones, in order to assess the extent to which texts convey their writers’ awareness of asymmetrical social status by placing particular emphasis on politeness moves. Special attention is paid to business discourse, where identity construal issues are crucial for the maintenance of successful networks.

01 01 JB code pbns.299.ind 06 10.1075/pbns.299.ind 219 228 10 Miscellaneous 11 01 04 Index Index
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The central innovation of this volume consists in its use of a wide range of politeness metasources — grammar books, schoolbooks, conduct books, etiquette books, and letter-writing manuals — to access social norms. This interdisciplinary approach, which draws on historical linguistics, argumentation theory, appraisal theory and literary stylistics, is applied to a wide range of languages: English, including Scottish and business English, Italian, Spanish, West and South Slavic languages.
As a highly coherent collection of innovative research papers, the volume will be welcomed by researchers of (im)politeness, pragmatics and sociolinguistics, both from a historical and contemporary perspective.
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The central innovation of this volume consists in its use of a wide range of politeness metasources — grammar books, schoolbooks, conduct books, etiquette books, and letter-writing manuals — to access social norms. This interdisciplinary approach, which draws on historical linguistics, argumentation theory, appraisal theory and literary stylistics, is applied to a wide range of languages: English, including Scottish and business English, Italian, Spanish, West and South Slavic languages.
As a highly coherent collection of innovative research papers, the volume will be welcomed by researchers of (im)politeness, pragmatics and sociolinguistics, both from a historical and contemporary perspective.
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This contribution studies address forms in grammars and textbooks of several West and South Slavic languages of the eighteenth and nineteenth century, especially in the pedagogical dialogues that accompany these works. The languages in focus had been using several address forms borrowed from German (or Italian), and due to the efforts of linguistic purism, these borrowings were eliminated in the nineteenth century. The result is in all those languages a system of address pronouns consisting of the second person singular and plural. The purist efforts were motivated by the wish of restoring an older language form, or to approach an imagined ideal type of Slavic language; they are an effect of the national movements of these non-dominant ethnic groups (National Revival).

01 01 JB code pbns.299.03sal 06 10.1075/pbns.299.03sal 75 106 32 Chapter 5 01 04 Chapter 2. The Nuovo Galateo (`New Galateo', 1802) by Melchiorre Gioja, politeness (pulitezza) and reason Chapter 2. The Nuovo Galateo (‘New Galateo’, 1802) by Melchiorre Gioja, politeness (pulitezza) and reason 1 A01 01 JB code 280348613 Francesca Saltamacchia Saltamacchia, Francesca Francesca Saltamacchia Università della Svizzera italiana 07 https://benjamins.com/catalog/persons/280348613 2 A01 01 JB code 388348614 Andrea Rocci Rocci, Andrea Andrea Rocci Università della Svizzera italiana 07 https://benjamins.com/catalog/persons/388348614 03 00

In 1802 Melchiorre Gioja published the Nuovo Galateo (‘New Galateo’), a treatise that supplants the aristocratic model based on conventional ceremonies with a model based on ragione sociale ‘social reason’. The word and its morphological derived lexemes play an important role in the argumentative architecture of the treatise. We hypothesize that reason can be considered an argumentative keyword of the treatise, i.e. a word that evokes beliefs and values that function as endoxa. We examine the collocations and the constructions in which ragione and its derived lexemes enter, and we demonstrate how different key-constructions based on ragione are used to argumentatively justify politeness evaluations. This investigation not only confirms the argumentative keyness of the reason-related constructions, but also casts light on the utilitarian nature of the social reason underlying Gioja’s view of politeness.

01 01 JB code pbns.299.04pat 06 10.1075/pbns.299.04pat 107 144 38 Chapter 6 01 04 Chapter 3. Politeness and evaluative adjectives in Italian turn-of-the-century etiquette books (1877-1914) Chapter 3. Politeness and evaluative adjectives in Italian turn-of-the-century etiquette books (1877–1914) 1 A01 01 JB code 160348615 Annick Paternoster Paternoster, Annick Annick Paternoster Università della Svizzera italiana 07 https://benjamins.com/catalog/persons/160348615 03 00

This study examines evaluative adjectives and politeness evaluators in 9 popular etiquette books published in turn-of-the-century Italy between 1877–1914, with the aim to determine the values that are involved in the judgement of behaviour. Using Appraisal Theory (Martin & White 2005), I group positive evaluative adjectives in the following semantic sets: Normality, Capacity, Tenacity, Veracity and Politeness. Politeness comprises the subsets Conformity, Affection, Goodness and Pleasure. The paper establishes diversity and frequencies within the various lexical sets, which are used to design a conceptual map. The map shows the dominating ideological weight of etiquette and its core values of Normality and Conformity, which point towards intensely regulated behaviour in a large number of contexts.

01 01 JB code pbns.299.p2 06 10.1075/pbns.299.p2 Section header 7 01 04 Part II. Politeness usage Part II. Politeness usage 01 01 JB code pbns.299.05kin 06 10.1075/pbns.299.05kin 147 170 24 Chapter 8 01 04 Chapter 4. Commitment fulfillment and politeness Chapter 4. Commitment fulfillment and politeness 01 04 Commissive speech acts in colonial Louisiana Spanish Commissive speech acts in colonial Louisiana Spanish 1 A01 01 JB code 945348616 Jeremy King King, Jeremy Jeremy King Louisiana State University 07 https://benjamins.com/catalog/persons/945348616 03 00

The present study investigates commissive speech acts in the Spanish colony of Louisiana in order to present insight into Spain’s perspective on linguistic politeness in light of European regime change during the period of the French Revolution. The corpus chosen for the current study consists of 200 institutional letters penned by Spaniards in the North American colony in the last quarter of the eighteenth century. I argue that owing to their frequent mitigation commissives should not be understood as intrinsically polite speech acts. I tentatively posit that, due to evident changes in linguistic strategy employed by Louisiana Spaniards, colonial North America felt the effects of the revolutionary fervor.

01 01 JB code pbns.299.06shv 06 10.1075/pbns.299.06shv 171 196 26 Chapter 9 01 04 Chapter 5. Promoting negative politeness in nineteenth-century England Chapter 5. Promoting negative politeness in nineteenth-century England 01 04 The case of letter-writing manuals The case of letter-writing manuals 1 A01 01 JB code 300348617 Polina Shvanyukova Shvanyukova, Polina Polina Shvanyukova Università degli Studi di Bergamo 07 https://benjamins.com/catalog/persons/300348617 03 00

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 the users of the manuals reflect the contemporary shift towards negative politeness in English, as claimed in previous studies (Culpeper & Demmen 2012; Jucker 2012). The inventory of lexico-grammatical forms used to make requests will be devised by collecting examples from the sections of the manuals dedicated to commercial correspondence. The analysis of the examples reveals that the repertoire of strategies of making requests was vast, including categories such as modulated direct requests, as well as modulated indirect requests. The findings are discussed in the light of current politeness theories.

01 01 JB code pbns.299.07dos 06 10.1075/pbns.299.07dos 197 218 22 Chapter 10 01 04 Chapter 6. "With kindest regards" Chapter 6. “With kindest regards” 01 04 Relational work, social identity and (hyper)politeness in Late Modern English documents Relational work, social identity and (hyper)politeness in Late Modern English documents 1 A01 01 JB code 397348618 Marina Dossena Dossena, Marina Marina Dossena Università degli Studi di Bergamo 07 https://benjamins.com/catalog/persons/397348618 03 00

In Late Modern times, both usage guides and letter-writing manuals commented on language etiquette, providing guidance on how to address specific recipients according to their rank, age, and gender, how to approach certain topics, and how to convey mutual status relying exclusively on language. Guides and manuals, however, cannot always be assumed to be accurate representations of what actually occurred in usage. In this contribution I intend to investigate these materials alongside authentic ones, in order to assess the extent to which texts convey their writers’ awareness of asymmetrical social status by placing particular emphasis on politeness moves. Special attention is paid to business discourse, where identity construal issues are crucial for the maintenance of successful networks.

01 01 JB code pbns.299.ind 06 10.1075/pbns.299.ind 219 228 10 Miscellaneous 11 01 04 Index Index
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