A grammar of authority?
- 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".
Verfasserangaben: | Annette GerstenbergORCiDGND, Carine Skupien-DekensGND |
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DOI: | https://doi.org/10.1075/jhp.17006.ger |
ISSN: | 1566-5852 |
ISSN: | 1569-9854 |
Titel des übergeordneten Werks (Englisch): | Journal of historical pragmatics |
Untertitel (Englisch): | directive Speech Acts and terms of address in two single-genre corpora of Classical French |
Verlag: | John Benjamins Publishing Co. |
Verlagsort: | Amsterdam |
Publikationstyp: | Wissenschaftlicher Artikel |
Sprache: | Englisch |
Datum der Erstveröffentlichung: | 16.11.2021 |
Erscheinungsjahr: | 2021 |
Datum der Freischaltung: | 10.01.2024 |
Freies Schlagwort / Tag: | corpus; correspondence; directive speech acts; politeness; sermons; terms of address |
Band: | 22 |
Ausgabe: | 1 |
Seitenanzahl: | 33 |
Erste Seite: | 1 |
Letzte Seite: | 33 |
Fördernde Institution: | Schweizerischer Nationalfonds zur Forderung der Wissenschaftlichen ForschungAustrian Science Fund (FWF); Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG)German Research Foundation (DFG) [162761115]; Deutsche ForschungsgemeinschaftGerman Research Foundation (DFG) |
Organisationseinheiten: | Philosophische Fakultät / Institut für Romanistik |
DDC-Klassifikation: | 4 Sprache / 40 Sprache / 400 Sprache |
9 Geschichte und Geografie / 90 Geschichte / 900 Geschichte und Geografie | |
Peer Review: | Referiert |