Politeness in Nineteenth-Century Europe.

Intro -- Politeness in Nineteenth-Century Europe -- Editorial page -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Table of contents -- Acknowledgements -- Politeness in nineteenth-century Europe, a research agenda -- 1. England v. Germany -- 2. Nineteenth-century bourgeoisie -- 3. The European ruling class, a comparative review -- 4. Aristocratic persistence? -- 5. Historical (im)politeness and nineteenth-century Europe -- 6. Discernment -- 7. Linguistic change: On conventionalisation and metasources -- 8. Historical factors for sociopragmatic change -- 9. The contributions in this volume -- Acknowledgement -- References -- Part I. Politeness metadiscourse -- Chapter 1. Address forms in grammars and textbooks of West and South Slavic languages in the eighteenth and nineteenth century -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Dialogue books -- 3. Czech -- 4. Slovak -- 5. Slovene -- 6. Bosnian/Croatian/Serbian -- 7. Summary -- References -- Appendix 1 -- Appendix 2 -- Appendix 3 -- Chapter 2. The Nuovo Galateo ('New Galateo', 1802) by Melchiorre Gioja, politeness (pulitezza) and reason -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Key words as culturally shared evaluations -- 3. The New Galateo -- 4. The occurrences of "reason": Frequency and polysemy -- 5. Social reason -- 6. In ragione di 'by reason of': Economic and mathematic origins -- 7. Per/con ugual ragione 'for/with the same reason' and con maggior ragione 'with more reason' as argumentative indicators -- 8. Conclusion -- Primary sources -- References -- Chapter 3. Politeness and evaluative adjectives in Italian turn-of-the-century etiquette books (1877-1914) -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Etiquette books -- 3. Sources -- 4. Martin and White's appraisal theory: Evaluative language and values -- 5. Method and data collection -- 6. Social Esteem -- 7. Social Sanction -- 8. Conceptual map -- 9. Conclusion -- Acknowledgement -- References.

Appendix -- Part II. Politeness usage -- Chapter 4. Commitment fulfillment and politeness: Commissive speech acts in colonial Louisiana Spanish -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Colonial Louisiana and European regime change -- 3. Commissive speech acts -- 4. Description of corpus and method -- 5. Commissives in colonial Louisiana institutional communication -- 6. Discussion and conclusions -- References -- Chapter 5. Promoting negative politeness in nineteenth-century England: The case of letter-writing manuals -- 1. Investigating politeness dimension in nineteenth-century letter-writing guides -- 2. Towards a negative politeness society: Making requests in pre-nineteenth and nineteenth-century England -- 3. Inventory of linguistic strategies for making requests in nineteenth-century commercial model letters -- 4. Discussion of the findings -- 5. Concluding remarks -- Primary sources -- References -- Chapter 6. "With kindest regards": Relational work, social identity and (hyper)politeness in Late Modern English documents -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Providing guidance: Politeness in model texts -- 3. Social status awareness and the politeness cline -- 4. Concluding remarks -- Primary sources -- References -- Index.

This volume explores a pivotal period in European history, the 'long' nineteenth century. 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.

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