Valentine A. Pakis

List of John Benjamins publications for which Valentine A. Pakis plays a role.

Articles

The history of impoliteness — of which insults are a part — and violence are intertwined. In medieval Germanic cultural history, this link manifests itself in historical-pragmatic contexts such as sennur, whettings, and flyting-to-fighting scenarios, which are surveyed in this paper. The… read more
Pakis, Valentine A. 2011 Insults, violence, and the meaning of lytegian in the Old English Battle of MaldonUnderstanding Historical (Im)Politeness, Bax, Marcel and Dániel Z. Kádár (eds.), pp. 198–229 | Article
The history of impoliteness — of which insults are a part — and violence are intertwined. In medieval Germanic cultural history, this link manifests itself in historical-pragmatic contexts such as sennur, whettings, and flyting-to-fighting scenarios, which are surveyed in this paper. The… read more
Pakis, Valentine A. 2010 Praesens Historicum and the Question of Old Latin Influence on the Gothic BibleNOWELE Volume 58/59 (June 2010): The Gothic Language, Nielsen, Hans Frede † and Flemming Talbo Stubkjær (eds.), pp. 239–254 | Article