LEADER 05403nam 2200649 a 450 001 9910461813903321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a90-272-7511-4 035 $a(CKB)2670000000272578 035 $a(EBL)1043407 035 $a(OCoLC)815672127 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000757193 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)12265489 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000757193 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10754230 035 $a(PQKB)11107735 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC1043407 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL1043407 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10613337 035 $a(EXLCZ)992670000000272578 100 $a20120328d2012 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 00$aUnderstanding historical (im)politeness$b[electronic resource] $erelational linguistic practice over time and across cultures /$fedited by Marcel Bax, Da?niel Z. Ka?da?r 210 $aAmsterdam ;$aPhiladelphia $cJohn Benjamins Pub. Co.$d2012 215 $a1 online resource (289 p.) 225 0$aBenjamins current topics,$x1874-0081 ;$vv. 41 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a90-272-0260-5 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aUnderstanding Historical (Im)Politeness; Editorial page; Title page; LCC data; Table of contents; The historical understanding of historical (im)politeness; 1. Linguistic (im)politeness and the quest for cultural coherences; 2. Thick understandings of past practices; 2.1 In-between medieval truths; 2.2 Face-offs beyond face value; 2.3 Sizing up the superficial: Cross-historical letter-writing matters; 3. Historical (im)politeness: Tracing trends; 3.1 Language and society: Co-developmental patterns; 3.2 Terms of address, terms of social marking 327 $a4. Making an issue of/on historical (im)politeness5. Historical (im)politeness dilemmas; 6. Making sense of the socio-relational past: An overview of this special issue; References; 'Face' across historical cultures; 1. Introduction; 2. Modernisation in Turkey and China; 2.1 The meaning of modernisation in late nineteenth-century Turkey; 2.2 The meaning of modernisation in the Chinese context; 3. 'Face' in Turkish novels; 3.1 Looking 'at' and looking 'in' someone's face; 3.2 'Face' as rights and obligations; 4. 'Face' in Chinese novels; 4.1 Chinese 'face' 327 $a4.2 Chinese 'face' as rights and obligations5. Concluding remarks; Acknowledgements; Notes; Sources; References; Nineteenth-century English politeness; 1. Introduction; 2. The rise of the individual self and the nineteenth century; 2.1 The self before the nineteenth century and causes of change; 2.2 Mid-nineteenth century individualism; 2.3 The development of the individual self and implications for politeness; 3. The rise of conventional indirect requests; 3.1 Factors relating to the development of ability-oriented conventional indirect requests 327 $a3.2 Evidence for the existence of pre-nineteenth century ability-oriented conventional indirect requests4. Investigating the rise of ability-oriented conventional indirect requests in the nineteenth century; 4.1 Evidence from the late eighteenth century; 4.2 Evidence from the nineteenth century; 4.2.1 Tracking the overall distribution of ability-oriented conventional indirect requests in the nineteenth century; 4.2.2 Clarity of requestive force of ability-oriented conventional indirect requests; 4.2.3 Genre differences 327 $a4.2.4 Outcomes from the analysis of ability-oriented conventional indirect requests in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century texts5. Conclusion; Acknowledgements; Notes; Sources; References; "[T]his most unnecessary, unjust, and disgraceful war"; 1. Context and background; 2. Sources and method; 3. Lack of truthfulness; 4. Bad conduct of the war, a hopeless situation and "insanity"; 5. Self-aggrandisement and subservience to a foreign power; 6. Private character and "extinction"; 7. Concluding observations; Acknowledgements; Note; References; A socio-cognitive approach to historical politeness 327 $a1. Theorising about politeness 330 $aThis paper is intended as an overall template of the evolution of (im)politeness. It elucidates how (linguistic) rapport management originated and developed over time, and tries to come to grips with (some of) the sociocultural factors behind such changes. Taking its point of departure in human prehistory (Section?1), the paper argues that, contrary to received wisdom, politeness and impoliteness are not two sides of the same coin (Section?2), and it discusses the dissimilar evolutionary antecedents of politeness and impoliteness (Sections 3 and 4). The paper then maps out three broad-scale di 410 0$aBenjamins Current Topics 517 3 $aUnderstanding historical impoliteness 606 $aPoliteness (Linguistics)$xHistory 606 $aPragmatics$xHistory 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aPoliteness (Linguistics)$xHistory. 615 0$aPragmatics$xHistory. 676 $a306.44 701 $aBax$b Marcel$0879520 701 $aKa?da?r$b Da?niel Z.$f1979-$0871036 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910461813903321 996 $aUnderstanding historical (im)politeness$91963793 997 $aUNINA