Mihaela-Viorica Constantinescu
List of John Benjamins publications for which Mihaela-Viorica Constantinescu plays a role.
Articles
2023 Ritual and modern “politeness” in the Romanian Principalities during the Phanariot period Politeness in and across Historical Europe, Paternoster, Annick, Gudrun Held and Dániel Z. Kádár (eds.), pp. 124–142 | Article
The paper focusses on ritual “politeness” in the eighteenth- and early-nineteenth century Romanian Principalities of Wallachia and Moldavia from a historical sociopragmatic perspective. The analysis of ceremonial literature and memoirs aims to highlight the instrumental role that the performance… read more
2018 A perspective on “impoliteness” in early modern Romanian court and diplomatic interactions Journal of Historical Pragmatics 19:1, pp. 92–121 | Article
The paper focuses on impoliteness dealt with from a historical pragmatics perspective (Jucker [ed.] 1995; Culpeper and Kádár [eds] 2010; Jucker and Taavitsainen [eds] 2010; etc.). The approach adopted in this study favours a first-order im/politeness view (Watts et al. [eds] 1992; Eelen 2001;… read more
2014 Evidential and epistemic strategies in Romanian parliamentary debates Certainty and Uncertainty in Dialogue, Zuczkowski, Andrzej (ed.), pp. 132–148 | Article
The paper presents some evidential and epistemic strategies that appear frequently in old and present-day Romanian parliamentary debates. By evidential and epistemic strategy we mean the manipulation of evidential and epistemic markers, either grammaticalized or pragmatic, in order to achieve… read more