Politeness in Nineteenth-Century Europe

Politeness in Nineteenth-Century Europe
Title Politeness in Nineteenth-Century Europe PDF eBook
Author Annick Paternoster
Publisher John Benjamins Publishing Company
Pages 238
Release 2019-01-15
Genre Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN 9027263051

Download Politeness in Nineteenth-Century Europe Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle

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.

Politeness in the History of English

Politeness in the History of English
Title Politeness in the History of English PDF eBook
Author Andreas H. Jucker
Publisher Cambridge University Press
Pages 223
Release 2020-04-16
Genre Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN 1108499627

Download Politeness in the History of English Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle

From the Middle Ages up to the present day, this book traces politeness in the history of the English language.

Imprisoned in English

Imprisoned in English
Title Imprisoned in English PDF eBook
Author Anna Wierzbicka
Publisher Oxford University Press, USA
Pages 305
Release 2014
Genre Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN 0199321507

Download Imprisoned in English Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle

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.

America Through European Eyes

America Through European Eyes
Title America Through European Eyes PDF eBook
Author Aurelian Cr_iu_u
Publisher Penn State Press
Pages 298
Release 2009
Genre History
ISBN 0271033908

Download America Through European Eyes Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle

"A collection of essays that discuss representative eighteenth- and nineteenth-century French and English views of American democracy and society, and offer a critical assessment of various narrative constructions of American life, society, and culture"--Provided by publisher.

Travel and Space in Nineteenth-Century Europe

Travel and Space in Nineteenth-Century Europe
Title Travel and Space in Nineteenth-Century Europe PDF eBook
Author Anna P.H. Geurts
Publisher Taylor & Francis
Pages 320
Release 2024-06-27
Genre History
ISBN 1040094058

Download Travel and Space in Nineteenth-Century Europe Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle

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.

A History of Manners and Civility in Thailand

A History of Manners and Civility in Thailand
Title A History of Manners and Civility in Thailand PDF eBook
Author Patrick Jory
Publisher Cambridge University Press
Pages 281
Release 2021-01-07
Genre History
ISBN 1108491243

Download A History of Manners and Civility in Thailand Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle

An innovative new social history of Thailand told through the lens of changing ideals of manners, civility and behaviour.

Polite Anarchy in International Relations Theory

Polite Anarchy in International Relations Theory
Title Polite Anarchy in International Relations Theory PDF eBook
Author Z. Kazmi
Publisher Springer
Pages 490
Release 2012-11-09
Genre Political Science
ISBN 1137028130

Download Polite Anarchy in International Relations Theory Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle

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.