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.
Annick Paternoster
List of John Benjamins publications for which Annick Paternoster plays a role.
Titles
Subjects Discourse studies | Historical linguistics | Pragmatics
Politeness in Nineteenth-Century Europe
Edited by Annick Paternoster and Susan Fitzmaurice
[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 299] 2019. vii, 288 pp.
Subjects Discourse studies | Historical linguistics | Pragmatics
Articles
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
2023 The codification of nineteenth-century etiquette: On politeness, morality, rituals and discernment Politeness in and across Historical Europe, Paternoster, Annick, Gudrun Held and Dániel Z. Kádár (eds.), pp. 160–178 | Article
Etiquette has only marginally attracted the attention of politeness scholars. This article aims to fill a knowledge gap as it explores the concept in a more systematic way, using nineteenth-century prescriptive metasources from four countries (Britain, France, Italy and the United States).… read more
2019 Chapter 3. Politeness and evaluative adjectives in Italian turn-of-the-century etiquette books (1877–1914) Politeness in Nineteenth-Century Europe, Paternoster, Annick and Susan Fitzmaurice (eds.), pp. 107–144 | Chapter
This study examines evaluative adjectives and politeness evaluators in 9 popular etiquette books published in turn-of-the-century Italy between 1877–1914, with the aim to determine the values that are involved in the judgement of behaviour. Using Appraisal Theory (Martin & White 2005), I group… read more
2019 Politeness in nineteenth-century Europe, a research agenda Politeness in Nineteenth-Century Europe, Paternoster, Annick and Susan Fitzmaurice (eds.), pp. 1–36 | Chapter
2015 Historicity in metapragmatics – a study on ‘discernment’ in Italian metadiscourse Pragmatics 25:3, pp. 369–391 | Article
The present paper contributes to meta pragmatics, by examining the question of how historicity influences the validity of certain modern meta terms that are accepted as ‘neutral’ and ‘scientific’ in pragmatics. We argue that it is fundamental to explore the history and development of such meta… read more