Using The Devil With Courtesy Shakespeare And The Language Of Impoliteness Bianca Del Villano by Bianca Del Villano 9783034323154, 3034323158 instant download after payment.

Renaissance England was marked by a pervasive culture of courtesy. The research hypothesis of this book is thatverbal courtesy, for historical and social reasons involving social mobility and the crisis produced by the clash between different systems of thought (Humanism, Catholicism, Protestantism, new scientific discourses), soon becamestrategic language, characterised by specific forms of facework detectable through the patterns of politeness and impoliteness employed by speakers.
Adopting a historical pragmatic perspective,Using the Devil with Courtesysemantically and conceptually connects courtesy and (im)politeness to analyse Renaissance forms of (im)politeness through Shakespeare. Drawing on a methodological line of research running from Goffman (1967) and Grice (1967), to Brown and Levinson (1987), Jucker (2010) and Culpeper (2011), the book focuses specifically onHamlet(c. 1601)andThe Taming of the Shrew(c. 1594) with three principal aims: 1) to survey the (im)polite strategies used by the characters; 2) to explore how this language connects to a specific Renaissance subjectivity; 3) to link language and subjectivity to extra-textual (historical and semiotic) factors.