Journal of Historical Pragmatics Vol. 24, No. 1 (2023)

Subtitle: Politeness in and across Historical Europe

Publisher: John Benjamins
http://www.benjamins.com/

Main Text:

Introduction: Politeness in and across Historical Europe
Dániel Z. Kádár, Gudrun Held & Annick Paternoster
pp. 1–15

ARTICLES

Cicero’s De Officiis, politeness and modern conduct manuals
Jon Hall
pp. 16–31

Facetus and the birth of “European” politeness
Luis Unceta Gómez
pp. 32–48

A culture of “pleasing”? Conceptual observations on the development of European “politeness” behaviour between aesthetics and ethics
Gudrun Held
pp. 49–67

Diplomatic letters from the Republic of Ragusa in the fifteenth century: (Im)politeness strategies in diplomatic epistolary discourse
Ana Lalić
pp. 68–85

German and Romance civility in contact: Retracing Early Modern European dynamics of polite address through historical foreign language manuals
Linda Gennies
pp. 86–104

A European model of polite conversation? Della Casa, Gioia and Knigge
Giovanna Alfonzetti
pp. 105–123

Ritual and modern “politeness” in the Romanian Principalities during the Phanariot period
Mihaela-Viorica Constantinescu
pp. 124–142

Historical language use in Europe from a contrastive pragmatic perspective: An exploratory case study of letter closings
Juliane House, Dániel Z. Kádár, Fengguang Liu & Wenrui Shi
pp. 143–159

The codification of nineteenth-century etiquette: On politeness, morality, rituals and discernment
Annick Paternoster
pp. 160–178

The informalisation of address practice in Swedish in a historical perspective
Maria Fremer
pp. 179–197

Historical changes in politeness norms: Are Finnish and French conceptions of politeness moving closer to each other?
Johanna Isosävi
pp. 198–216