Gudrun Held
List of John Benjamins publications for which Gudrun Held plays a role.
Journal
ISSN 1566-5852 | E-ISSN 1569-9854
Title
Politeness in and across Historical Europe
Edited by Annick Paternoster, Gudrun Held and Dániel Z. Kádár
Special issue of Journal of Historical Pragmatics 24:1 (2023) vi, 216 pp.
Subjects Discourse studies | Historical linguistics | Pragmatics
2023 A culture of “pleasing”? Conceptual observations on the development of European “politeness” behaviour between aesthetics and ethics Politeness in and across Historical Europe, Paternoster, Annick, Gudrun Held and Dániel Z. Kádár (eds.), pp. 49–67 | Article
This paper seeks to explain the development of European politeness as a result of courtly behaviour where “complaisance” played an important role. As traces left in the so-called “language of politeness” of numerous European linguacultures show, mutual “pleasing” determined social performance in… read more
2023 Introduction: Politeness in and across Historical Europe Politeness in and across Historical Europe, Paternoster, Annick, Gudrun Held and Dániel Z. Kádár (eds.), pp. 1–15 | Introduction
2010 Supplica la mia parvidade…: Petitions in medieval society — a matter of ritualised or first reflexive politeness? Journal of Historical Pragmatics 11:2, pp. 194–218 | Article
This paper studies the public communication act of petitions made in the Middle Ages by subjects to their governors in situations of high personal need. Analysing an edited corpus of correspondence in Anglo-Norman and Italian chancelleries of the early thirteenth to the late fifteenth century, I… read more
1999 Submission strategies as an expression of the ideology of politeness: Reflections on the verbalisation of social power relations Ideologies of politeness, Kienpointner, Manfred (ed.), pp. 21–36 | Article