Monthly meeting of the EVWRIT team to discuss and develop a new theoretical perspective towards communication practices in Antiquity.
Once a month from January 2019, the EVWRIT team will meet to discuss and develop a new theoretical perspective towards communication practices in Antiquity.
Theoretical sessions on fundamental aspects of novel methodologies (cognitive sociolinguistics, social semiotics, paléographie signifiante…) will be interchanged with practical ones (doing statistics, showing a database, presenting a paper…).
The reading group is open to anyone interested.
In this session of the reading group, we will discuss politeness theory and historical politeness. The moderator for this session is Eleonora Cattafi. The recommended literature for this session is the following:
- Brown, Penelope & Stephen C. Levinson. (1987). Politeness. Some universals in language usage, pp. 55-84.
- Kádár, Dániel Z. & Jonathan Culpeper. (2010). ‘Historical (Im)politeness: an introduction’, in Culpeper & Kádár (eds.). Historical (Im)politeness, pp. 9-36.
- Dickey, Eleanor. (2016). ‘Politeness in ancient Rome: can it help us evaluate modern politeness theories?’, Journal of politeness research, 12 (2), pp. 197-220.
For a better understanding, the moderator suggests to read these works in this order, since the second and third article make references to the concepts explained in the first contribution.
The session will be held in English.
For further questions or remarks, contact Eleonora Cattafi at eleonora.cattafi@ugent.be.
For more information about the EVWRIT project, see http://www.evwrit.ugent.be/.