Richard J. Watts
List of John Benjamins publications for which Richard J. Watts plays a role.
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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
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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
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 | Article
2011. A socio-cognitive approach to historical politeness. Understanding Historical (Im)Politeness, Bax, Marcel and Dániel Z. Kádár (eds.), pp. 104–132
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 | Article
2010. Social institutions. Society and Language Use, Jaspers, Jürgen, Jan-Ola Östman and Jef Verschueren (eds.), pp. 261–273
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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
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1999. Language and politeness in early eighteenth century Britain. Ideologies of politeness, Kienpointner, Manfred (ed.), pp. 5–20
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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 ff.
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1997. Social institutions. Handbook of Pragmatics: 1996 Installment, Verschueren, Jef, Jan-Ola Östman, Jan Blommaert † and Chris Bulcaen (eds.), pp. 1–15
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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 ff.
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