Recent trends and developments in
Historical Im/Politeness Research
Date: 10-Jul-2024 – 10-Jul-2024
Location: Online only via Teams, United Kingdom
Contact: Kim Ridealgh
Contact Email: historicalpoliteness@gmail.com
Meeting URL: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScWBDLzIsmZGtrDFuIPfOOdR3iweJulgiZz2iO44LbmiXxPUQ/viewform?usp=sf_link
Linguistic Field(s): Pragmatics
Meeting Description:
In view of the ever-growing interest in the phenomena of (im)politeness in historical lingua-cultures and of the recent theoretical developments in this expanding field, the Historical Politeness Network for Ancient Languages (HPNAC) is organizing the online conference “Recent trends and developments in Historical Im/Politeness Research”.
The aim of this meeting is to bring together new and engaged contributions on (im)politeness phenomena – verbal or non-verbal – and interpersonal pragmatic dynamics in historical linguacultures, from Antiquity up to the 19th century AD. Thus, we would like to foster the dialogue between scholars dealing with distant historical languages and cultures but confronted with similar methodological and theoretical issues. It is also our goal to offer a picture of the latest research on historical (im)politeness.
The Historical Politeness Network for Ancient Languages (https://historicalpoliteness.net/) has existed since 2014 and since then we have organized a previous conference, we have run four online lecture series, we have offered two courses for early career researchers, and we have published two special issues of the Journal of Politeness Research and the Journal of Historical Pragmatics. We are now delighted to organize a new online conference to further showcase our interdisciplinary work.
RECENT TRENDS AND DEVELOPMENTS IN HISTORICAL IM/POLITENESS RESEARCH
Organised by he Historical Politeness Network.
The conference is free to attend and will take place on Wednesday 10 July 2024, using Teams
To register as a participant fill in the google form at
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SESSION 1
9:00-10:30. FORMS AND FUNCTIONS (1)
• Ezra la Roi (University Ghent), “The historical politeness of greetings in Post-Classical Greek: performative greetings, interpersonal pragmatics and third-party politeness”
• Chiara Fedriani (University of Genoa) and Maria Napoli (University of Eastern Piedmont), “Perception verbs as sources of (im)politeness in the history of Italian”
• Silvia Iglesias-Recuero (Complutense University Madrid), “Thanking in medieval Spanish: linguistic forms, social contexts and interpersonal and ideological functions”
10:30-10:45. BREAK
SESSION 2
10:45-12:15. EMIC AND ETIC PERSPECTIVES
• Giuseppe Lentini (La Sapienza, Rome), “Politeness and mock politeness in Homer’s Iliad”
• Federica Iurescia (Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Milan), “Offence and Impoliteness in Latin”
• Dariusz Crawczyk (University of Lille), “(Im)politeness in the Heptaméron of Marguerite de Navarre (1559): models of polite interactions”
12:15-12:30. BREAK
12:30-13:30. KEYNOTE SPEAKER
Andreas H. Jucker (University of Zurich), “Courtesy request markers in the history of English. The long diachrony”
13:30-14:30. LUNCH BREAK
SESSION 3
14:30-16:00. LINGUISTIC FORMS AND FUNCTIONS (2)
• Melitta Gillmann (University of Duisbuig-Essen), “Honorific registers in 16th to 18th century German”
• Chiara Ghezzi (University of Bergamo), “The routinisation of Italian acts of gratitude between the 18th and the 19th century: politeness and social changes”
• Valentina Concu (Universidad del Norte), “Directives in the Middle and Early New High German Reference Corpora”
16:00-16:15. BREAK
SESSION 4
16:15-17:45. SOCIAL AND NATIONAL IDENTITIES
• Cesare Barba (King’s College London), “In/Gratitude as a form of Im/Politeness: Cicero and clientela in the Roman Republic”
• Rita Faria (UCP – Catholic University of Portugal, Lisbon), “Poor, paltry slaves? How the discursive construction of national face in 19th-century Portugal tried to show otherwise”
• Sasha Barish (Stanford University), “Politeness and the Ancient Greek Proverb in a Scene from Menander”