TY - BOOK ID - 78761837 TI - Manners, norms and transgressions in the history of English : literary and linguistic approaches AU - Jucker, Andreas H. AU - Taavitsainen, Irma PY - 2020 SN - 9789027207463 9027207461 9027260826 PB - Amsterdam John Benjamins Publishing Company DB - UniCat KW - Politeness (Linguistics) KW - English language KW - Courtesy in literature KW - Etiquette in literature KW - English literature KW - Courtesy (Linguistics) KW - Linguistics KW - Semantics KW - History KW - History and criticism KW - Semasiology KW - Historical linguistics KW - Germanic languages KW - English language Semantics UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:78761837 AB - "This volume traces the multifaceted concept of manners in the history of English from the late medieval through the early and late modern periods right up to the present day. It focuses in particular on transgressions of manners and norms of behaviour as an analytical tool to shed light on the discourse of polite conduct and styles of writing. The papers collected in this volume adopt both literary and linguistic perspectives. The fictional sources range from medieval romances and Shakespearean plays to eighteenth-century drama, Lewis Carroll's Alice books and present-day television comedy drama. The non-fictional data includes conduct books, medical debates and petitions written by lower class women in the eighteenth and nineteenth century. The contributions focus in particular on the following questions: What are the social and political ideologies behind rules of etiquette and norms of interaction, and what can we learn from blunders and other transgressions?"-- ER -