The present study aims to discuss some politeness strategies in 13–16th century Catalan, based on a corpus pragmatic analysis of requests from the Computerized Corpus of Old Catalan (Corpus Informatitzat del Català Antic [CICA]), found by searching for occurrences of the speech act verbs pregar ‘ask, pray’ and suplicar ‘supplicate, beg, beseech’. Results of the present study provide evidence that politeness in 13–16th century Catalan was realized by different linguistic means than in contemporary Catalan. It focuses on some conventionally indirect strategies that consisted in using the verb voler ‘want’ to transfer the imperative force from the performance of the requested act to the hearer’s willingness. At the intersection of speech act r...
It is known that certain prosodic aspects of speech play a role in the expression of paralinguistic ...
Research on Spanish politeness has developed dramatically in the past decade. One of the most influen...
This paper presents a descriptive model of the melodic characteristics of expressions of politeness ...
The purpose of this article is to analyse strategies and linguistic resources which characterize the...
textThus far, politeness in Old and Middle French and in older languages in general has not been clo...
This paper presents a descriptive model of the melodic characteristics of expressions of politeness ...
Recent cross-linguistic research has demonstrated that speakers use a prosodic mitigation strategy w...
In current-day Catalan, the verb témer (‘to fear’) has an intersubjective value, together with a lex...
The sincerity and the honesty as enunciative attitudes involve the personality of the speaker in his...
The aim of this paper is to analyse in the history of Spanish two typesof greeting formulas, defined...
Within the recently-coined sub-field of corpus pragmatics, one of the areas of interest is the study...
The thesis is a study of nineteen late medieval letters of petition and request from the Corpus of M...
The thesis is a study of nineteen late medieval letters of petition and request from the Corpus of M...
In the Spanish language historiography there are a series of handbooks on etiquette that from the Re...
[Abstract] The nineteenth century witnesses the competition between courtesy markers in requests, wi...
It is known that certain prosodic aspects of speech play a role in the expression of paralinguistic ...
Research on Spanish politeness has developed dramatically in the past decade. One of the most influen...
This paper presents a descriptive model of the melodic characteristics of expressions of politeness ...
The purpose of this article is to analyse strategies and linguistic resources which characterize the...
textThus far, politeness in Old and Middle French and in older languages in general has not been clo...
This paper presents a descriptive model of the melodic characteristics of expressions of politeness ...
Recent cross-linguistic research has demonstrated that speakers use a prosodic mitigation strategy w...
In current-day Catalan, the verb témer (‘to fear’) has an intersubjective value, together with a lex...
The sincerity and the honesty as enunciative attitudes involve the personality of the speaker in his...
The aim of this paper is to analyse in the history of Spanish two typesof greeting formulas, defined...
Within the recently-coined sub-field of corpus pragmatics, one of the areas of interest is the study...
The thesis is a study of nineteen late medieval letters of petition and request from the Corpus of M...
The thesis is a study of nineteen late medieval letters of petition and request from the Corpus of M...
In the Spanish language historiography there are a series of handbooks on etiquette that from the Re...
[Abstract] The nineteenth century witnesses the competition between courtesy markers in requests, wi...
It is known that certain prosodic aspects of speech play a role in the expression of paralinguistic ...
Research on Spanish politeness has developed dramatically in the past decade. One of the most influen...
This paper presents a descriptive model of the melodic characteristics of expressions of politeness ...