Richard J. Watts
List of John Benjamins publications for which Richard J. Watts plays a role.
2012 Inscribed orality and the end of a discourse archive: Metapragmatic and metadiscursive expressions in the Peterborough Chronicle Investigations into the Meta-Communicative Lexicon of English: A contribution to historical pragmatics, Busse, Ulrich and Axel Hübler (eds.), pp. 67–88 | Article
2012 A socio-cognitive approach to historical politeness Understanding Historical (Im)Politeness: Relational linguistic practice over time and across cultures, Bax, Marcel and Dániel Z. Kádár (eds.), pp. 103–130 | Article
The central argument of this paper is that “politeness”, when looked at not as a theoretical term but as a lexeme in the English language, has a relatively unstable set of cognitive concepts for which it prompts when used. The first-order notion of “politeness” developed by Watts, Ide and Ehlich… read more
2011 A socio-cognitive approach to historical politeness Understanding Historical (Im)Politeness, Bax, Marcel and Dániel Z. Kádár (eds.), pp. 104–132 | Article
The central argument of this paper is that “politeness”, when looked at not as a theoretical term but as a lexeme in the English language, has a relatively unstable set of cognitive concepts for which it prompts when used. The first-order notion of “politeness” developed by Watts, Ide and Ehlich… read more
2010 Social institutions Society and Language Use, Jaspers, Jürgen, Jan-Ola Östman and Jef Verschueren (eds.), pp. 261–273 | Article
2003 Why fuude is not 'food' and tschëgge is not 'check': A new look at the actuation problem Social Dialectology: In honour of Peter Trudgill, Britain, David and Jenny Cheshire (eds.), pp. 115–129 | Article
2000 Introduction Journal of Historical Pragmatics 1:2, pp. 165–173 | Article
1999 Language and politeness in early eighteenth century Britain Ideologies of politeness, Kienpointner, Manfred (ed.), pp. 5–20 | Article
1999 Refugiate in a strange countrey: Learning English through Dialogues in the 16th Century Historical Dialogue Analysis, Jucker, Andreas H., Gerd Fritz and Franz Lebsanft (eds.), pp. 215–242 | Article
1997 Social institutions Handbook of Pragmatics: 1996 Installment, Verschueren, Jef, Jan-Ola Östman, Jan Blommaert † and Chris Bulcaen (eds.), pp. 1–15 | Article
1995 Justifying Grammars: A Socio-Pragmatic Foray into the Discourse Community of Early English Grammatians Historical Pragmatics: Pragmatic developments in the history of English, Jucker, Andreas H. (ed.), pp. 145–186 | Article