T/V pronouns and FTAs in The Works of Sir Thomas Malory: Medieval politeness and impoliteness in directives, expressives, and commissives

Wiśniewska-Przymusińska, Malwina

T/V pronouns and FTAs in The Works of Sir Thomas Malory: Medieval politeness and impoliteness in directives, expressives, and commissives

dc.contributor.author	Wiśniewska-Przymusińska, Malwina
dc.date.accessioned	2021-02-21T21:23:12Z
dc.date.available	2021-02-21T21:23:12Z
dc.date.issued	2020
dc.description.abstract	Middle English second person pronouns thou and you (T/V) are considered to be among the means employed by medieval speakers to express their attitudes towards each other. Along with face-threatening acts, the use of these pronouns could indicate power relations or solidarity/distance between the interactants (Taavitsainen & Jucker 2003; Jucker 2010; Mazzon 2010; Bax & Kádár 2011, 2012; Jucker 2012). Using the tools available in pragmatic research, this paper attempts to provide an analysis of selected fragments from The Works of Sir Thomas Malory (Vinaver 1948 [1947]), analysed through the lens of Searle’s speech act theory (1969, 1976). The aim of this paper is to investigate whether the usage of T/V pronouns in polite or impolite contexts depends on the speech act in which they appear or not. Secondly, it looks at the presence of face-threatening acts (FTAs) and their potential influence on polite or impolite pronoun usage. Lastly, the analysis looks at the usage of FTAs within specific speech acts. The fragments used in this article were chosen from five chapters of Malory’s text: The Tale of King Arthur, Lancelot and Guinevere, The Morte Arthur, The Noble Tale, and Tristram de Lyones.	pl_PL
dc.identifier.citation	Studia Anglica Posnaniensia vol. 55, 2020, pp. 139-176	pl_PL
dc.identifier.doi	https://doi.org/10.2478/stap-2020-0006
dc.identifier.uri	https://hdl.handle.net/10593/26101
dc.language.iso	eng	pl_PL
dc.rights	info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess	pl_PL
dc.rights.uri	http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/us/	*
dc.subject	historical pragmatics	pl_PL
dc.subject	Middle English	pl_PL
dc.subject	T/V pronouns	pl_PL
dc.subject	Malory	pl_PL
dc.subject	politeness	pl_PL
dc.subject	politeness;	pl_PL
dc.subject	FTA	pl_PL
dc.title	T/V pronouns and FTAs in The Works of Sir Thomas Malory: Medieval politeness and impoliteness in directives, expressives, and commissives	pl_PL
dc.type	Artykuł	pl_PL