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Record Nr.

UNINA9910458933403321

Autore

Bouchara Abdelaziz

Titolo

Politeness in Shakespeare [[electronic resource] ] : applying Brown and Levinson's politeness theory to Shakespeare's comedies / / Abdelaziz Bouchara

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Hamburg, : Diplomica Verlag, 2009

ISBN

3-8366-2753-1

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (120 p.)

Disciplina

822.3

822.3/3

822.33

Soggetti

Etiquette in literature

Etiquette

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

Politeness in Shakespeare; Table of Contents; Abbreviations; 1 Introduction; 2 The Brown and Levinson model: some central concepts; 3 Politeness theory and literary discourse; 4 Applying the model to four Shakespearean comedies; 5 Conclusion; 6. References; 7 Appendix; Abdelaziz Bouchara

Sommario/riassunto

Penelope Brown and Stephen Levinson have proposed that power (P), distance (D), and the ranked extremity (R) of a face-threatening act are the universal determinants of politeness levels in dyadic discourse. This claim is tested here for Shakespeare's use of Early Modern English in Much Ado about Nothing, Measure for Measure, The Taming of the Shrew, and Twelfth Night. The comedies are used because: (1) dramatic texts provide the best information on colloquial speech of the period; (2) the psychological soliloquies in the comedies provide the access to inner life that is necessary for a proper