Chapter published in:
Manners, Norms and Transgressions in the History of English: Literary and linguistic approachesEdited by Andreas H. Jucker and Irma Taavitsainen
[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series 312] 2020
► pp. 271–293
“Meaning you have been known to act rashly”
How Molly Weasley negotiates her identity as a moral authority in conflicts in the Harry Potter series
Jana Pelclová | Masaryk University
Molly Weasley, a mother character in J. K. Rowling’s
Harry Potter series, represents a moral authority whose
system of moral values and principles that governs her family is also
recognised and highly appreciated by other characters in the books and by
the readers. However, even Molly Weasley becomes engaged in conflictual
situations in which she transgresses her morality and chooses impoliteness
to control her interlocutor’s inappropriate behaviour. Such situations
enable her to negotiate her identity as a moral authority and to be
perceived as a complex character. Drawing upon Culpeper’s (2011) theoretical framework of
impoliteness, the objective of the paper is to study how Molly Weasley
employs conventionalised and implicational impoliteness in her direct
speeches, which functions her impolite formulas have, and how both the
triggers and functions are determined by her relation with her
interlocutor.
Keywords: impoliteness, conventionalised impoliteness, implicational impoliteness, Harry Potter, Molly Weasley, moral authority, manners
Article outline
- 1.Introduction
- 2.Theoretical background
- 3.Molly Weasley as a moral authority
- 4.Methodology
- 5.Findings
- 5.1Conventionalised impoliteness
- 5.2Implicational impoliteness
- 6.Conclusion
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Published online: 11 August 2020
https://doi.org/10.1075/pbns.312.12pel
https://doi.org/10.1075/pbns.312.12pel
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