The pragmatics of royal discourse in William Shakespeare’s Henry vi

IF 0.4 3区 文学 0 LANGUAGE & LINGUISTICS Journal of Historical Pragmatics Pub Date : 2023-10-20 DOI:10.1075/jhp.19012.kiz
Urszula Kizelbach
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Abstract Politeness ( Brown and Gilman 1989 ; Rudanko 1993 ; Kopytko 1995 ) and impoliteness ( Culpeper 1996 , 2001 ; Bousfield 2007 ) have a prominent place in the reading of Shakespearean drama and serve as a means of characterisation. In this study, I utilise (im)politeness and face theory to characterise the royal discourse in 1, 2, 3 Henry vi . The study aims to analyse the linguistic behaviour of King Henry vi to see how well his royal discourse reflects his kingship and how his linguistic inadequacy contributes to his political failures. I investigate Henry’s use of (im)politeness and facework to handle political negotiations and I evaluate his level of awareness of the “political face”, which is the king’s desire to preserve a positive public image and to save face in social interactions. I look at the examples of Henry’s inadequate linguistic behaviour and try to establish why this behaviour was inefficient in a given scene and context.
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莎士比亚《亨利六世》中皇室话语的语用学
抽象礼貌(Brown and Gilman 1989;Rudanko 1993;(Culpeper 1996, 2001;Bousfield 2007)在莎士比亚戏剧的阅读中占有突出的地位,并作为一种塑造人物的手段。在本研究中,我利用(im)礼貌和面子理论来表征亨利六世在1,2,3中的王室话语。这项研究旨在分析亨利六世国王的语言行为,以了解他的王室话语在多大程度上反映了他的王权,以及他的语言缺陷如何导致了他的政治失败。我调查了亨利在处理政治谈判时使用的(不)礼貌和面部表情,并评估了他对“政治面孔”的认识程度,这是国王希望保持积极的公众形象,在社会交往中保全面子。我看了亨利不适当的语言行为的例子,并试图确定为什么这种行为在给定的场景和上下文中是低效的。
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期刊介绍: The Journal of Historical Pragmatics provides an interdisciplinary forum for theoretical, empirical and methodological work at the intersection of pragmatics and historical linguistics. The editorial focus is on socio-historical and pragmatic aspects of historical texts in their sociocultural context of communication (e.g. conversational principles, politeness strategies, or speech acts) and on diachronic pragmatics as seen in linguistic processes such as grammaticalization or discoursization. Contributions draw on data from literary or non-literary sources and from any language. In addition to contributions with a strictly pragmatic or discourse analytical perspective, it also includes contributions with a more sociolinguistic or semantic approach.
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