Politeness In Nineteenth Century Europe

Author : Annick Paternoster,Susan Fitzmaurice
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
Page : 238 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2019-01-15
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027263056

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Politeness in Nineteenth-Century Europe by Annick Paternoster,Susan Fitzmaurice Pdf

This volume explores a pivotal period in European history, the ‘long’ nineteenth century. Politeness scholars have suggested that the nineteenth century heralds a significant transition in the meanings and realisations of politeness, between the Ancien Régime and the contemporary period, with the rise of the middle classes as economic, political, social and cultural actors. The central innovation of this volume consists in its use of a wide range of politeness metasources — grammar books, schoolbooks, conduct books, etiquette books, and letter-writing manuals — to access social norms. This interdisciplinary approach, which draws on historical linguistics, argumentation theory, appraisal theory and literary stylistics, is applied to a wide range of languages: English, including Scottish and business English, Italian, Spanish, West and South Slavic languages. As a highly coherent collection of innovative research papers, the volume will be welcomed by researchers of (im)politeness, pragmatics and sociolinguistics, both from a historical and contemporary perspective.

Author : Annick Paternoster
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2022-12-06
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783031075780

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Historical Etiquette by Annick Paternoster Pdf

This book is a groundbreaking study of etiquette in the nineteenth century when the success of etiquette books reached unprecedented heights in Britain, France, Italy, the Netherlands, and the United States. It positions etiquette as a fully-fledged theoretical concept within the fields of politeness studies and historical pragmatics. After tracing the origin of etiquette back to Spanish court protocol, the analysis takes a novel approach to key aspects of etiquette: its highly coercive and intricate scripts; the liminal rituals of social gatekeeping; the fear for blunders; the obsession with precedence. Interrogating the complex relationship between historical etiquette and adjacent notions of politeness, conduct, morality, convention, and ritual, the study prompts questions on gender stereotyping and class privilege surrounding the present-day etiquette revival. Through adopting a unique comparative approach and a corpus-based methodology this study seeks to revitalise our understandings of etiquette. This book will be of interest to scholars of historical linguistics and pragmatics, as well as those in neighbouring fields such as literary criticism, gender studies and family life, domestic and urban spaces.

Author : Gudrun Andersson,Jon Stobart
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2021-08-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9781000425727

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Daily Lives and Daily Routines in the Long Eighteenth Century by Gudrun Andersson,Jon Stobart Pdf

This book explores the ways in which the lives and routines of a wide range of people across different parts of Europe and the wider world were structured and played out through everyday practices. It focuses on the detail of individual lives and how these were shaped by spaces and places, by movement and material culture – both the buildings they occupied and the objects they used in their everyday lives. Drawing on original research by a range of established and emerging scholars, each chapter peers into the lives of people from various social groups as they went about their daily lives, from citizens on the streets to aristocrats at home in their country houses, and from the urban elite at leisure to seamen on board ships bound for the East Indies. For all these people, daily routines were important in structuring their lives, giving them a rhythm that was knowable and meaningful in its temporal regularity, be that daily, weekly, or seasonal. So too were their everyday encounters and relationships with other people, within and beyond the home; these shaped their practices, movements, and identities and thus served to mould society in a broader sense.

Author : Luisella Caon,Marion Elenbaas,Janet Grijzenhout
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 189 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2021-02-18
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781527566248

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Language Use, Usage Guides and Linguistic Norms by Luisella Caon,Marion Elenbaas,Janet Grijzenhout Pdf

This volume offers a collection of twelve original papers on language use and attitudes towards language from both a historical and a present-day perspective. The first part of the book focuses on the general theme of language use and on attitudes towards language use in both the past and the present. The second part concentrates on actual language use in personal and public letters from the sixteenth to nineteenth centuries. The third part is mainly concerned with the possible impact of usage guides, and also addresses the problem of language and cultural misunderstanding and the apparent need for usage guides for cultural allusions. Language Use, Usage Guides and Linguistic Norms will be of interest to scholars of language use in both the past and the present, as well as to anyone interested in the interplay between actual language use and prescriptive attitudes towards language.

Author : Eugenia Paulicelli,Veronica Manlow,Elizabeth Wissinger
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 510 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2021-09-22
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780429559433

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The Routledge Companion to Fashion Studies by Eugenia Paulicelli,Veronica Manlow,Elizabeth Wissinger Pdf

This collection of original essays interrogates disciplinary boundaries in fashion, gathering fashion studies research across disciplines and from around the globe. Fashion and clothing are part of material and visual culture, cultural memory, and heritage; they contribute to shaping the way people see themselves, interact, and consume. For each of the volume’s eight parts, scholars from across the world and a variety of disciplines offer analytical tools for further research. Never neglecting the interconnectedness of disciplines and domains, these original contributions survey specific topics and critically discuss the leading views in their areas. They include discursive and reflective pieces, as well as discussions of original empirical work, and contributors include established leaders in the field, rising stars, and new voices, including practioner and industry voices. This is a comprehensive overview of the field, ideal not only for undergraduate and postgraduate fashion studies students, but also for researchers and students in communication studies, the humanities, gender and critical race studies, social sciences, and fashion design and business.

Author : Anna P.H. Geurts
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2024-06-27
Category : History
ISBN : 9781040094051

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Travel and Space in Nineteenth-Century Europe by Anna P.H. Geurts Pdf

This detailed study of eighty European journeys examines the everyday spatial concerns of nineteenth-century travelers, with a focus on travelers from the Netherlands and North Sea region. From common soldiers in revolutionary Belgium to guests of the tsars in Russia, many of their travel accounts are here examined for the first time. Chapters analyze the different meanings of the home and homeliness; travelers’ desires for socializing but equally their intricate privacy norms; their intense attachment to cleanliness, order, space, and light; and the discomforts of cold, hot, wet, hard, and cramped spaces. Author Anna P.H. Geurts details what spatial characteristics travelers valued, what measures they took to ensure them, and what sensations, emotions, and thoughts this resulted in. Geurts’s careful attention to gender, class, and individual experience turns existing conceptions of industrial modernity on their head. From Napoleonic stagecoaches and sailing-boats to the steam-powered journeys of the belle époque, the continuities in travel experiences are surprising, as are the commonalities between travelers of different social classes and genders. Significant shifts in their spatial micropolitics should be sought less in the world of administration and industrial machinery, and more in travelers’ increasingly flexible and egalitarian mindset and changing economic relations. This book will be of value to students and researchers of cultural history as well as contemporary planning and design.

Author : Joan Wildeblood,Peter Brinson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 1965
Category : England
ISBN : 9140060047

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The Polite World: a Guide to English Manners and Deportment from the Thirteenth to the Nineteenth Century by Joan Wildeblood,Peter Brinson Pdf

Author : Elaine Chalus,Perry Gauci
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2019-01-31
Category : History
ISBN : 9780192523631

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Revisiting The Polite and Commercial People by Elaine Chalus,Perry Gauci Pdf

For some time before his death in July 2015, former colleagues and students of Paul Langford had discussed the possibility of organising a festschrift to celebrate his remarkable contribution to eighteenth-century history. It was planned for 2019 to commemorate the thirtieth anniversary of the appearance of his seminal A Polite and Commercial People, the opening volume in the New Oxford History of England series, Paul's best-known and most influential publication. He was delighted to hear of these plans and the tragic news of his death only made the contributors more determined to see the project through to completion. The importance of A Polite and Commercial People within its own time is unquestionable. Not only did it provide a powerful new vision of eighteenth-century Britain, but it also played a vital part in reviving interest in, and expanding ways of thinking about, Georgian history. As the thirteen contributors to this volume amply testify, any review of the field from the 1980s onwards cannot ignore the profound effect Paul's research had on the social and political publications in his field. This collection of essays combines reflection on the impact of Paul's work with further engagement with the central questions he posed. In particular, it serves to re-connect various recent avenues of Georgian studies, bringing together diverse themes present in Paul's scholarship, but which are often studied independently of each other. As such, it aims to provide a fitting tribute to Paul's work and impact, and a wider reassessment of the current direction of eighteenth-century studies.

Author : Sandrine Sorlin,Tuija Virtanen
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2024-03-15
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027247056

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The Pragmatics of Hypocrisy by Sandrine Sorlin,Tuija Virtanen Pdf

As a first attempt to date, this book addresses the notion of hypocrisy from a pragmatic perspective and devises a comprehensive model of verbal hypocrisy. The studies included adopt emic and etic approaches in order to contribute jointly towards an understanding of what appears to be a ubiquitous and multifaceted phenomenon. Going beyond hypocrisy as a mere moral vice, this volume establishes its pragmatic space and confronts it with adjacent notions which, unlike hypocrisy, have been subject to pragmatic examination. The Pragmatics of Hypocrisy is of interest to students and scholars in pragmatics, discourse analysis, sociolinguistics, rhetoric, communication and media studies, as well as corpus linguistics, and by its transdisciplinary nature, to researchers in philosophy, sociology, and political science. It is also essential reading for anyone interested in the interplay between language, culture and society, across varieties and registers of English.

Author : Richard J. Watts
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 326 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2003-09-25
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0521794064

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Politeness by Richard J. Watts Pdf

During the last fifteen years, existing models of linguistic politeness have generated a huge amount of empirical research. Using a wide range of data from real-life speech situations, this new introduction to politeness breaks away from the limitations of current models and argues that the proper object of study in politeness theory must be commonsense notions of what politeness and impoliteness are. From this, Watts argues, a more appropriate model, one based on Bourdieu's concept of social practice, is developed.

Author : Stephen Banks
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
Page : 334 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
ISBN : 9781843835714

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A Polite Exchange of Bullets by Stephen Banks Pdf

Explores why minor slights to certain kinds of gentlemen led to duels in order for honour to be satisfied, and how such ideas about honour changed over time.

Author : Pierre Karila-Cohen
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 315 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2022-11-14
Category : History
ISBN : 9783030916145

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Prefects and Governors in Nineteenth-century Europe by Pierre Karila-Cohen Pdf

This edited collection presents a pan-European history of intermediary government and administration in nineteenth-century Europe. Taking a closer look at senior government officials who represented the sovereign or state far away from the capital, the book highlights the intermediary nature of their roles, which fell somewhere between the municipality and central bureaucracy. Against the backdrop of revolution and upheaval brought about by the Enlightenment and the First World War, the nineteenth century was a crucial period for reform and political change. Taking a transnational approach, the contributors examine the similarities between the challenges that faced government officials in different European states, focusing on their common role as mediators: firstly, between the ‘centre’ and the ‘peripheries’; and secondly, between the population and hierarchies of power. The status and prerogative of these officials are discussed, providing insights into the lives of French Préfets, Prussian Oberpräsidenten, Austrian Statthalter, Italian Prefetti, dutch Commissarissen des Konings and governors in Russia and Spain. The special case of the United Kingdom, where there were neither prefects nor governors, serves as a mirror. Dismantling the barriers between different national histories, this book represents a comprehensive and comparative investigation into the roles of nineteenth-century provincial administrators in Europe, an important read for anyone researching European political history or the history of the state.

Author : A. Withey
Publisher : Springer
Page : 162 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2015-12-03
Category : History
ISBN : 9781137467485

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Technology, Self-Fashioning and Politeness in Eighteenth-Century Britain by A. Withey Pdf

The second half of the eighteenth century brought important changes in attitudes towards shaping the body. New expectations of polite conduct, deportment and demeanour were projected onto the body, with emphasis laid upon neatness, elegance and a 'natural' body shape. Deformities were to be concealed, whilst bodily surfaces were managed to convey a harmonious whole. A large number of 'technologies of the body' were involved in this process, including wooden legs, elastic trusses, and even wigs. But the introduction of a new type of steel - cast steel - around 1750, offered new material possibilities for shaping the body. The physical properties of steel transformed the design and function of many instruments, from postural devices to spectacles, and even the smallest daily items of toilette. By no means was steel the only material involved in transforming the body. Neither did it simply sweep away all that had gone before. But, as an 'enlightened metal', cast steel was a key material in the refinement of the body.

Author : Z. Kazmi
Publisher : Springer
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2012-11-09
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781137028136

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Polite Anarchy in International Relations Theory by Z. Kazmi Pdf

An innovative re-evaluation of the concept of anarchy in theorizing diplomacy between states which draws on a historically sensitive re-evaluation of the ideological uses of politeness in the anarchist thought of William Godwin.

Author : Anna Wierzbicka
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780199321506

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Imprisoned in English by Anna Wierzbicka Pdf

Imprisoned in English argues that in the present English-dominated world, social sciences and the humanities are locked in a conceptual framework grounded in English and that scholars need to break away from this framework to reach a more universal, culture-independent perspective on things human.