@article{Warditz2017,
  author    = {Warditz, Vladislava Maria},
  title     = {Br{\"u}ckners H{\"o}flichkeitskonzept (1916): Linguistik oder Ideologie? Linguistische Untersuchung des sprachpolitischen Manifests eines Universalgelehrten},
  series = {Zeitschrift f{\"u}r Slawistik},
  volume    = {62},
  journal   = {Zeitschrift f{\"u}r Slawistik},
  publisher = {De Gruyter},
  address   = {Berlin},
  issn      = {0044-3506},
  doi       = {10.1515/slaw-2017-0014},
  pages     = {297 -- 315},
  year      = {2017},
  abstract  = {The paper presents the Polish study Ty-wy-pan. Kartka z dziej{\´o}w pr{\´o}\&\#380;no\&\#347;ci ludzkiej ('You (singular)-you (plural)-Lord. An overview on the history of the people's vanity', 1916) by Alexander Br{\"u}ckner from a linguistic-pragmatical as well as ideological point of view. In his pioneer study on politeness, the German-Polish slavist Br{\"u}ckner (1856-1939) critically reflects on the current system of Polish addresses and titles, especially in relating to the soon-to-be refoundation of the Second Polish Republic (1918). The paper analyzes how his linguistic description and his ideas for reformation of the Polish addressative system are pragmatically justified and how they are ideologically motivated. Furthermore, the paper reconstructs the status of Br{\"u}ckner's concept of politeness in the context of current studies on Polish pragmatics.},
  language  = {de}
}
@article{MazzarellaGotzner2021,
  author    = {Mazzarella, Diana and Gotzner, Nicole},
  title     = {The polarity asymmetry of negative strengthening},
  series = {Glossa : a journal of general linguistics},
  volume    = {6},
  journal   = {Glossa : a journal of general linguistics},
  number    = {1},
  publisher = {Open Library of Humanities},
  address   = {London},
  issn      = {2397-1835},
  doi       = {10.5334/gjgl.1342},
  pages     = {17},
  year      = {2021},
  abstract  = {The interpretation of negated antonyms is characterised by a polarity asymmetry: the negation of a positive polarity antonym (X is not interesting) is more likely to be strengthened to convey its opposite ('X is uninteresting') than the negation of a negative polarity antonym (X is not uninteresting to convey that 'X is interesting') is. A classical explanation of this asymmetry relies on face-management. Since the predication of a negative polarity antonym (X is uninteresting) is potentially face-threatening in most contexts, the negation of the corresponding positive polarity antonym (X is not interesting) is more likely to be interpreted as an indirect strategy to minimise face-threat while getting the message across. We present two experimental studies in which we test the predictions of this explanation. In contrast with it, our results show that adjectival polarity, but not face-threatening potential, appears to be responsible for the asymmetric interpretation of negated antonyms.},
  language  = {en}
}
@misc{GotznerMazzarella2020,
  author    = {Gotzner, Nicole and Mazzarella, Diana},
  title     = {Face Management and Negative Strengthening: The Role of Power Relations, Social Distance, and Gender},
  series = {Zweitver{\"o}ffentlichungen der Universit{\"a}t Potsdam : Humanwissenschaftliche Reihe},
  journal   = {Zweitver{\"o}ffentlichungen der Universit{\"a}t Potsdam : Humanwissenschaftliche Reihe},
  publisher = {Universit{\"a}tsverlag Potsdam},
  address   = {Potsdam},
  issn      = {1866-8364},
  doi       = {10.25932/publishup-54390},
  url       = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus4-543907},
  pages     = {1 -- 13},
  year      = {2020},
  abstract  = {Negated gradable adjectives often convey an interpretation that is stronger than their literal meaning, which is referred to as 'negative strengthening.' For example, a sentence like 'John is not kind' may give rise to the inference that John is rather mean. Crucially, negation is more likely to be pragmatically strengthened in the case of positive adjectives ('not kind' to mean rather mean) than negative adjectives ('not mean' to mean rather kind). A classical explanation of this polarity asymmetry is based on politeness, specifically on the potential face threat of bare negative adjectives (Horn, 1989; Brown and Levinson, 1987). This paper presents the results of two experiments investigating the role of face management in negative strengthening. We show that negative strengthening of positive and negative adjectives interacts differently with the social variables of power, social distance, and gender.},
  language  = {en}
}
@article{GotznerMazzarella2020,
  author    = {Gotzner, Nicole and Mazzarella, Diana},
  title     = {Face Management and Negative Strengthening},
  series = {Frontiers in psychology / Frontiers Research Foundation},
  volume    = {12},
  journal   = {Frontiers in psychology / Frontiers Research Foundation},
  publisher = {Frontiers Research Foundation},
  address   = {Lausanne, Schweiz},
  issn      = {1664-042X},
  doi       = {10.3389/fpsyg.2021.602977},
  pages     = {1 -- 13},
  year      = {2020},
  abstract  = {Negated gradable adjectives often convey an interpretation that is stronger than their literal meaning, which is referred to as 'negative strengthening.' For example, a sentence like 'John is not kind' may give rise to the inference that John is rather mean. Crucially, negation is more likely to be pragmatically strengthened in the case of positive adjectives ('not kind' to mean rather mean) than negative adjectives ('not mean' to mean rather kind). A classical explanation of this polarity asymmetry is based on politeness, specifically on the potential face threat of bare negative adjectives (Horn, 1989; Brown and Levinson, 1987). This paper presents the results of two experiments investigating the role of face management in negative strengthening. We show that negative strengthening of positive and negative adjectives interacts differently with the social variables of power, social distance, and gender.},
  language  = {en}
}
@article{GerstenbergSkupienDekens2021,
  author    = {Gerstenberg, Annette and Skupien-Dekens, Carine},
  title     = {A grammar of authority?},
  series = {Journal of historical pragmatics},
  volume    = {22},
  journal   = {Journal of historical pragmatics},
  number    = {1},
  publisher = {John Benjamins Publishing Co.},
  address   = {Amsterdam},
  issn      = {1566-5852},
  doi       = {10.1075/jhp.17006.ger},
  pages     = {1 -- 33},
  year      = {2021},
  abstract  = {Directive Speech Acts (dsas) are a major feature of historical pragmatics, specifically in research on historical (im)politeness. However, for Classical French, there is a lack of research on related phenomena. In our contribution, we present two recently constructed corpora covering the period of Classical French, sermo and apwcf. We present these corpora in terms of their genre characteristics on a communicative-functional and socio-pragmatic level. Based on the observation that, both in sermo and apwcf, dsas frequently occur together with terms of address, we analyse and manually code a sample based on this co-occurrence, and we compare the results with regard to special features in the individual corpora. The emerging patterns show a clear correspondence between socio-pragmatic factors and the linguistic means used to realise dsas. We propose that these results can be interpreted as signs of an underlying "grammar of authority".},
  language  = {en}
}