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Address pronouns in the Ibero-Romance spectrum are one of the most complex phenomena that have historically occurred in these languages, especially in Spanish and Portuguese. In this book, the diachrony of politeness and treatment pronouns is explained from a global perspective that allows us to understand the reasons that have led to such complexity and the enormous current variation. Thus, not only the geolinguistic, sociolinguistic, historical and pragmatic relationships are established, but also the grammatical determinants that are behind the familiar familiarity, voseo, ustedeo, subercedeo, voceamento and tuteamento are argued, and their multiple concordances, also taking into account the contact language and migration processes. Thanks to this monograph, we will be able to understand why there are different areas in the Iberian Peninsula and Latin America, and what journey Africa and the Philippines have experienced in terms of their treatment pronouns.

Politeness (Linguistics)

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Address pronouns in the Ibero-Romance spectrum are one of the most complex phenomena that have historically occurred in these languages, especially in Spanish and Portuguese. In this book, the diachrony of politeness and treatment pronouns is explained from a global perspective that allows us to understand the reasons that have led to such complexity and the enormous current variation. Thus, not only the geolinguistic, sociolinguistic, historical and pragmatic relationships are established, but also the grammatical determinants that are behind the familiar familiarity, voseo, ustedeo, subercedeo, voceamento and tuteamento are argued, and their multiple concordances, also taking into account the contact language and migration processes. Thanks to this monograph, we will be able to understand why there are different areas in the Iberian Peninsula and Latin America, and what journey Africa and the Philippines have experienced in terms of their treatment pronouns.

Politeness (Linguistics)

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This edited collection investigates historical linguistic politeness and impoliteness. Although some research has been undertaken uniting politeness and historical pragmatics, it has been sporadic at best, and often limited to traditional theoretical approaches. This is a strange state of affairs, because politeness plays a central role in the social dynamics of language. This collection, containing contributions from renowned experts, aims to fill this hiatus, bringing together cutting-edge research. Not only does it illuminate the language usage of earlier periods, but by examining the past it places politeness today in context. Such a diachronic perspective also affords a further test-bed for current models of politeness. This volume provides insights into historical aspects of language, particularly items regularly deployed for politeness functions, and the social, particularly interpersonal, contexts with which it interacts. It also sheds light on how (social) meanings are dynamically constructed in situ, and probes various theoretical aspects of politeness. Its papers deploy a range of multilingual (e.g. English, Spanish, Italian and Chinese) diachronic data drawn from different genres such as letters, dramas, witch trials and manners books. «'Historical (Im)politeness' will be a valuable resource for students and researchers in pragmatics, accessible to scholars already working on historical politeness and to those who wish to learn more about this lesser known discipline. Each author painstakingly sets the scene for the analysis of his or her corpus with a careful review of other sources, both modern ones as well as some that were concurrent with the works examined. In addition, editors Culpeper and Kádár call for researchers to create new approaches to politeness or to develop existing theories, and the papers in this volume attest to the authors' success in meeting that challenge.» (Laura Callahan, The Linguist List) «It is one of the strengths of this volume that the authors refrain from generalising statements in order to give credit to the situated practices that they study. In this way they acknowledge that the texts are historically removed as well as culturally embedded and the cultural situatedness of the practices discussed is thus nicely highlighted. Furthermore, it is refreshing that the chapters present work on different languages (...). This breadth allows the reader to appreciate the complexity of how relational effects are created through language use. [...] This collection continues the general tendency of opening the scope of research on politeness phenomena to research that includes impoliteness. It is up to date with respect to the current discussions in politeness research which centre around emic and etic distinctions and the problem of judging relational work. It is thus relevant for all researchers interested in interpersonal pragmatics - no matter whether they work with historical or present-day data.» (Miriam A. Locher, Journal of Historical Pragmatics)

Politeness (Linguistics) --- Pragmatics --- History.

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Politeness (Linguistics) --- English language --- Semantics.

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Linguistics. --- Truthfulness and falsehood. --- Politeness (Linguistics).