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SUMMARY:Politeness in the History of English: An Overview 
DESCRIPTION:Politeness in the History of English: An Overview\\r\\nGuest le
 cture\, University of Basel\, 28 November 2022\\r\\nAndreas H. Jucker\, Un
 iversity of Zurich\\r\\n\\r\\nAbstract\\r\\nWhen we think of politeness in
  English\, we tend to think of such stereotypical phrases as “I wonder i
 f you could tell us …”\, “perhaps you might like to tell me …” o
 r “can I ask you to read …”. A lot of research has already been carr
 ied out assessing the real status of such phrases in Present-day English b
 eyond the stereotype\, but in this presentation I am interested in the his
 tory of politeness. Have such forms existed ever since the beginning of En
 glish? Quick spoiler: no\, they haven’t\, they are\, in fact\, quite rec
 ent. But if such forms are recent\, how were people polite before these fo
 rms came into more widespread use? Were people polite at all? And how can 
 we even tell what was polite or not so polite several hundred years ago? F
 or the first 1\,000 years or so of the English language\, the term “poli
 te” did not even exist.\\r\\nIn this lecture\, I want to provide some th
 eoretical and methodological background for the investigation of such ques
 tions\, and I will provide quick snapshots across the entire history of th
 e English language. I will look at some of the terms for appropriate and p
 leasing behaviour in Old English\; at Chaucer’s use of the then newly im
 ported French term courtesy in his Canterbury Tales\; at Romeo and Tybalt
 ’s use of you and thou\; at the ideological importance of the term polit
 eness in the eighteenth century\; and at the rise (and fall!) of non-impos
 ition politeness (as illustrated in the opening phrases of this abstract) 
 in recent decades.\\r\\n\\r\\nReferences\\r\\nJucker\, Andreas H. (2020) P
 oliteness in the History of English. From the Middle Ages to the Present D
 ay. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
X-ALT-DESC:<p><strong>Politeness in the History of English: An Overview</st
 rong></p>\n<p>Guest lecture\, University of Basel\, 28 November 2022</p>\n
 <p>Andreas H. Jucker\, University of Zurich</p>\n\n<p><strong>Abstract</st
 rong></p>\n<p>When we think of politeness in English\, we tend to think of
  such stereotypical phrases as “I wonder if you could tell us …”\, 
 “perhaps you might like to tell me …” or “can I ask you to read 
 …”. A lot of research has already been carried out assessing the real 
 status of such phrases in Present-day English beyond the stereotype\, but 
 in this presentation I am interested in the history of politeness. Have su
 ch forms existed ever since the beginning of English? Quick spoiler: no\, 
 they haven’t\, they are\, in fact\, quite recent. But if such forms are 
 recent\, how were people polite before these forms came into more widespre
 ad use? Were people polite at all? And how can we even tell what was polit
 e or not so polite several hundred years ago? For the first 1\,000 years o
 r so of the English language\, the term “polite” did not even exist.</
 p>\n<p>In this lecture\, I want to provide some theoretical and methodolog
 ical background for the investigation of such questions\, and I will provi
 de quick snapshots across the entire history of the English language. I wi
 ll look at some of the terms for appropriate and pleasing behaviour in Old
  English\; at Chaucer’s use of the then newly imported French term <em>c
 ourtesy</em> in his <em>Canterbury Tales</em>\; at Romeo and Tybalt’s us
 e of <em>you</em> and <em>thou</em>\; at the ideological importance of the
  term <em>politeness</em> in the eighteenth century\; and at the rise (and
  fall!) of non-imposition politeness (as illustrated in the opening phrase
 s of this abstract) in recent decades.</p>\n\n<p><strong>References</stron
 g></p>\n<p>Jucker\, Andreas H. (2020) <em>Politeness in the History of Eng
 lish. From the Middle Ages to the Present Day</em>. Cambridge: Cambridge U
 niversity Press.</p>
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