Richard J. Watts

List of John Benjamins publications for which Richard J. Watts plays a role.

Articles

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
Watts, Richard J. 2011 A socio-cognitive approach to historical politenessUnderstanding 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
Watts, Richard J. 2010 Social institutionsSociety and Language Use, Jaspers, Jürgen, Jan-Ola Östman and Jef Verschueren (eds.), pp. 261–273 | Article
Watts, Richard J. 2003 Why fuude is not 'food' and tschëgge is not 'check': A new look at the actuation problemSocial Dialectology: In honour of Peter Trudgill, Britain, David and Jenny Cheshire (eds.), pp. 115–129 | Article
Watts, Richard J. 2000 IntroductionJournal of Historical Pragmatics 1:2, pp. 165–173 | Article
Watts, Richard J. 1999 Language and politeness in early eighteenth century BritainIdeologies of politeness, Kienpointner, Manfred (ed.), pp. 5–20 | Article
Watts, Richard J. 1999 Refugiate in a strange countrey: Learning English through Dialogues in the 16th CenturyHistorical Dialogue Analysis, Jucker, Andreas H., Gerd Fritz and Franz Lebsanft (eds.), pp. 215 ff. | Article
Watts, Richard J. 1997 Social institutionsHandbook of Pragmatics: 1996 Installment, Verschueren, Jef, Jan-Ola Östman, Jan Blommaert † and Chris Bulcaen (eds.), pp. 1–15 | Article