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100 1 _aJucker, Andreas H.
245 1 0 _aManners, Norms and Transgressions in the History of English :
_bLiterary and Linguistic Approaches.
250 _a1st ed.
264 1 _aAmsterdam/Philadelphia :
_bJohn Benjamins Publishing Company,
_c2020.
264 4 _c©2020.
300 _a1 online resource (308 pages)
336 _atext
_btxt
_2rdacontent
337 _acomputer
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_2rdamedia
338 _aonline resource
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490 1 _aPragmatics and Beyond New Series ;
_vv.312
505 0 _aIntro -- Manners, Norms and Transgressions in the History of English -- Editorial page -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Table of contents -- Preface -- Manners, norms and transgressions: Introduction -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Three waves of politeness theory -- 3. The diachrony of manners and politeness -- 4. Norms, blunders and transgressions -- 5. Literary and linguistic approaches to data analysis -- 6. Conclusion -- Primary sources -- Corpora and dictionaries -- References -- 'Ipomedon' and the elusive nature of blunders in the courtly literature of medieval England -- 1. Introduction -- 2. The tale of Ipomedon as a succession of blunders -- 2.1 The incident with the boteler -- 2.2 The Proud One's blunder -- 2.3 Ipomedon the troublemaker -- 3. The evolution of politeness strategies in the Middle English retellings of Fr. 'Ipomedon' -- 3.1 The refashioning of minor transgressions -- 3.2 The reinvention of Ipomedon as a fallible human being 'and' a model of courtly values -- 4. Conclusion -- Sources -- Dictionaries -- References -- Unrestrained acting and norms of behaviour: Excess and instruction in 'The Legend of Good Women' -- 1. Introduction -- 2. 'Exempla' and the idea of good women -- 3. The representation of despicable actions -- 4. The legend of Thisbe -- 5. The legend of Lucretia -- 6. Conclusions: Unrestrained gestures as norms of behaviour -- Sources -- References -- Blunders and (un)intentional offence in Shakespeare -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Blunders: Pragmatic description and their effects -- 2.1 Blunders as FTAs -- 2.2 Blunders, intentionality and impoliteness -- 2.3 Blunders as speech acts: Illocutionary force and unintentional perlocutionary effects -- 2.3.1 Embarrassment and embarrassability -- 2.3.2 Humour -- 3. Blunders in 'The Merry Wives of Windsor' and 'King Henry IV, Parts 1' and '2' -- 3.1 Mistress Quickly.
505 8 _a3.2 Falstaff -- 4. Concluding remarks -- Acknowledgements -- Sources -- References -- The discourse of manners and politeness in Restoration and eighteenth-century drama -- 1. Introduction -- 2. The vocabulary of manners and politeness -- 3. The discourse of manners and politeness -- 4. Discussion and conclusion -- Editions -- Corpora and dictionaries -- References -- "This Demon Anger": Politeness, conversation and control in eighteenth-century conduct books for young women -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Self-control and individualism: The link with conduct -- 3. The discourse of conduct: Readers, writers, and ideals -- 4. Conduct books and the display of anger -- 5. Avoiding anger -- 6. Conclusion -- Sources -- References -- A medical debate of "heated pamphleteering" in the early eighteenth century -- 1. Conflict discourse in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries -- 2. Data, research questions and methods -- 3. The pragmatic space of aggressive language use -- 4. A brief history of smallpox literature -- 5. Main protagonists and what they wrote -- 6. Norms of medical writing in the eighteenth century -- 6.1 Norm 1: Royal Society "plain" style -- 6.2 Norm 2: Rhetorical eloquence -- 6.3 Norm 3: Scholastic argumentation with moral concerns -- 7. Exploiting the norms with meaning reversals -- 7.1 Setting the scene -- 7.2 From general to personal accusations -- 7.3 Demeaning professional skills and experience -- 7.4 Language issues -- 7.5 Modification of a classical argumentation pattern -- 7.6 National feelings: Us versus them -- 8. Conclusions -- Sources -- References -- Transgressions as a socialisation strategy in Samuel Richardson's 'The Apprentice's Vade Mecum' (1734) -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Representation of transgressive acts in Richardson's 'The Apprentice's Vade Mecum' -- 3. Instructive language in 'The Apprentice's Vade Mecum'.
505 8 _a4. Concluding remarks -- Sources -- References -- Variations from letter-writing manuals: 'Humble petitions' signed by women in Late Modern London -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Letter-writing and petitions in eighteenth-century England -- 3. Letter-writing manuals in Late Modern England -- 3.1 The instructions in these manuals -- 3.2 Features of the petitions in the manuals -- 4. The present study -- 4.1 The data -- 4.2 The manuals -- 5. Method -- 6. Results -- 6.1 Group 1: Petitions that include a superscription and/or an opening formula -- 6.2 Group 2: Petitions that do not include a superscription and/or an opening formula -- 7. A comparison between Group 1 and Group 2 -- 8. Conclusions -- Acknowledgements -- Sources -- References -- Impoliteness in Blunderland: Carroll's Alice books and the manners in which manners fail -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Victorian manners -- 3. From politeness to impoliteness -- 4. Transgressions in Carroll's Alice books -- 4.1 Linguistic transgressions -- 4.1.1 Punning -- 4.1.2 Neologism -- 4.1.3 Relexicalisation -- 4.2 Pragmatic transgressions -- 4.2.1 Conversational maxim violations -- 4.2.2 Infelicitous speech acts -- 4.2.3 Bald-on-record impoliteness -- 5. Conclusion -- Sources -- References -- "Collect a thousand loyalty points and you get a free coffin": Creative impoliteness in the TV comedy drama 'Doc Martin' -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Asymmetrical power relationships in doctor-patient interaction -- 3. Towards an understanding of impoliteness and its comic potential -- 4. Analysis of extracts from Series 1 to 7 -- 4.1 Series 1 (2004): Starting off on the wrong foot -- 4.2 Series 2 (2005): People coming back -- 4.3 Series 3 (2007): The course of true love never did run smooth -- 4.4 Series 4 (2009): Blood's no problem -- 4.5 Series 5 (2011): Leaving Portwenn, or maybe not -- 4.6 Series 7 (2015): Anglo-American relations.
505 8 _a5. Conclusions -- Data -- References -- "Meaning you have been known to act rashly": How Molly Weasley negotiates her identity as a moral authority in conflicts in the 'Harry Potter' series -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Theoretical background -- 3. Molly Weasley as a moral authority -- 4. Methodology -- 5. Findings -- 5.1 Conventionalised impoliteness -- 5.2 Implicational impoliteness -- 6. Conclusion -- Sources -- References -- Name index -- Subject index.
588 _aDescription based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
590 _aElectronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
650 0 _aPoliteness (Linguistics).
655 4 _aElectronic books.
700 1 _aTaavitsainen, Irma.
776 0 8 _iPrint version:
_aJucker, Andreas H.
_tManners, Norms and Transgressions in the History of English
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