Mihaela-Viorica Constantinescu
List of John Benjamins publications for which Mihaela-Viorica Constantinescu plays a role.
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