Richard J Watts
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 3618873 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Richard J Watts |
| NOMBRES | Richard J |
| APELLIDO | Watts |
| FIRMA | WATTS R J |
| AFILIACIONES | University of Bern |
| VERIFICADO | No |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 32 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 495 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 29 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 3 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1937 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2022 |
| ÍNDICE H | 6 |
Language and politeness in early eighteenth century Britain
Polite' learning is closely associated here with 'polishing' and 'refining' the English language and with establishing the 'purity and propriety of style'. It is placed in opposition to 'ignorance and affectation' and to 'innovations in speech
Letter Writing and Language Change
Letter Writing and Language Change outlines the historical sociolinguistic value of letter analysis, both in theory and practice. The chapters in this volume make use of insights from all three 'Waves of Variation Studies', and many of them, either implicitly or explicitly, look at specific aspects of the language of the letter writers in an effort to discover how those writers position themselves and how they attempt, consciously or unconsciousl…
Obituary for Michael Clyne
A socio-cognitive approach to historical politeness
The central argument of this paper is that “politeness”, when looked at not as a theoretical term but as a lexeme in the English language, has a relatively unstable set of cognitive concepts for which it prompts when used. The first-order notion of “politeness” developed by Watts, Ide and Ehlich (1992a), Watts (2003, 2005) and Locher (2004) entails the need for a very different form of theorisation from the rationalist/objectivist approach presen…
Using folk songs as a source for dialect change? The pervasive effects of attitudes
The present article argues that the social category of â standardisation' has been instrumental in creating a Foucaultian discourse archive governing what may and what may not be stated on the subject of the history of English. It analyses the question of how language attitudes have been instrumental in creating the myths that have driven the discourse of Standard English since the 19th century, but it goes further than this by showing how langua…
Henri Van Lier
Re-reading and rehabilitating Basil Bernstein
This article constitutes a re-reading of and an attempt to rehabilitate Basil Bernstein, both of which are important in light of the interpretation of Bernstein as a proponent of the verbal deficit view, and the general discrediting of his work on social class differences in the British educational system, as related to what he later called ‘codes’, by scholars like Jensen (Social class and verbal learning, Holt, 1968) and Labov (The logic of non…
Chapter 4. Relational work and impoliteness
Rudeness, conceptual blending theory and relational work
The present article takes a discursive approach to the topic of impoliteness, in which conceptualizations of impoliteness are construed in the process of real-time interaction. The term “discursive” refers neither to a conversational analytic approach to interaction nor to one which is derived from principles of Critical Discourse Analysis. It rests rather on lay members' ongoing interpretations of what constitutes inappropriate forms of behaviou…
Towards an ecocritical postcolonialism
2008). Towards an ecocritical postcolonialism: Val Plumwood’s Environmental Culture in dialogue with Patrick Chamoiseau. Journal of Postcolonial Writing: Vol. 44, New Directions in Postcolonial Studies, pp. 251-261
Contested Sources
Situated at the intersection of postcolonial studies and ecocriticism, this essay argues that fresh water is a site of contested representational regimes in French Caribbean literature. The meaning of water in the Caribbean is the result of the encounter between ideas brought together by a wide range of actors, with French and African understandings of water the two most significant. French notions of water's meaning and value circulate throughou…
Obituary for Professor Peter H. Nelde
As editor of Multilingua , I wish to convey to our readership the sad news of the death of Prof. Dr. Peter Hans Nelde, Professor of Germanic Linguistics and Director of the Research Center on Multilingualism at the Catholic University of Brussels. I do so with great sorrow as I had known Peter since 1985 when I first met him at the annual meeting of the Societas Linguistica Europæa in Toledo, Spain. Peter died on August 31 this year after a coura…
Voicing Memory
Book Review| May 01 2005 Voicing Memory: History and Subjectivity in French Caribbean Literature Nick Nesbitt Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 2003 xviii + 258 pp., $18.50 (paper) Richard Watts Richard Watts Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2005) 25 (1): 257–258. https://doi.org/10.1215/1089201X-25-1-257 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter P…
Politeness Theory and Relational Work
In this paper we briefly revisit politeness research influenced by Brown and Levinson's (1987) politeness theory. We argue that this research tradition does not deal with politeness but with the mitigation of face-threatening acts (FTAs) in general. In our understanding, politeness cannot just be equated with FTA-mitigation because politeness is a discursive concept. This means that what is polite (or impolite) should not be predicted by analysts…
Politeness
During the fifteen years prior to the first publication of this book in 2003, existing models of linguistic politeness generated a huge amount of empirical research. Using a wide range of data from real-life speech situations, this introduction to politeness breaks away from the limitations of those models and argues that the proper object of study in politeness theory must be commonsense notions of what politeness and impoliteness are. From this…
Toutes ces eaux
Patrick Chamoiseau's latest novel, Biblique des derniers gestes (2002), is a staging of the tension between the defense of local particularity and immersion in what Hardt and Negri call Empire. This tension is explored most visibly through Chamoiseau's literal and figurative uses of water. The protagonist's relation to water constructs Martinican particularity, but it also catapults him into Empire, the network of interests that govern contempora…
Senghor's Prefaces between the Colonial and the Postcolonial
Over the last one hundred and fifty years or so, whites have expressed their interest in Black African literature, whether in critical essays such as Abbé Grégoire's or in translations such as Blaise Cendrars's. But now francophone Black Africans want to present this literature themselves, and they do so most often by serving as its translators
The ideology of dialect in Switzerland
Relevance theory and verbal interruptions
The Calvin and Hobbes comic strip illustrates that conversations are not contests, although participants may gain and lose discourse status. This paper first examines the nature of interventions, concluding that most of them are not perceived to be interruptive by participants in real-life conversations. In other words, since conversations generally function in cooperative ways, interventions are usually seen to contribute to the interaction. How…
Genetic Criticism and its Myths
Multilingualism. John Edwards
Planning in‐service training courses
The organisation of in‐service training courses for foreign‐language teachers is an important provision made by public education authorities and those responsible for foreign‐language teaching in the private sector (e.g. firms, businesses, international organisations, etc.) to ensure that non‐mother‐tongue teachers renew their contact both with speakers of the foreign‐language and with new methods, teaching materials and theoretical insights into…
Cross-cultural miscommunication in a Swiss day-care center
Politeness in Language
This collection of 13 original papers focuses on the phenomenon of politeness in language. It presents the most important problems in developing a theory of linguistic politeness, which must deal with the crucial differences between lay notions of politeness in different cultures and the term ‘politeness’ as a concept within a theory of linguistic politeness. The universal validity of the term itself is called into question, as are models such as…
Acquiring status in conversation
Politeness Theory and Relational Work
In this paper we briefly revisit politeness research influenced by Brown and Levinson's (1987) politeness theory. We argue that this research tradition does not deal with politeness but with the mitigation of face-threatening acts (FTAs) in general. In our understanding, politeness cannot just be equated with FTA-mitigation because politeness is a discursive concept. This means that what is polite (or impolite) should not be predicted by analysts…
Politeness in Language
This collection of 13 original papers focuses on the phenomenon of politeness in language. It presents the most important problems in developing a theory of linguistic politeness, which must deal with the crucial differences between lay notions of politeness in different cultures and the term ‘politeness’ as a concept within a theory of linguistic politeness. The universal validity of the term itself is called into question, as are models such as…
Relevance and relational work
Taking the pitcher to the 'well
Rudeness, conceptual blending theory and relational work
The present article takes a discursive approach to the topic of impoliteness, in which conceptualizations of impoliteness are construed in the process of real-time interaction. The term “discursive” refers neither to a conversational analytic approach to interaction nor to one which is derived from principles of Critical Discourse Analysis. It rests rather on lay members' ongoing interpretations of what constitutes inappropriate forms of behaviou…
Language, dialect and national identity in Switzerland
An analysis of epistemic possibility and probability 1
Acquiring status in conversation
A socio-cognitive approach to historical politeness
The central argument of this paper is that “politeness”, when looked at not as a theoretical term but as a lexeme in the English language, has a relatively unstable set of cognitive concepts for which it prompts when used. The first-order notion of “politeness” developed by Watts, Ide and Ehlich (1992a), Watts (2003, 2005) and Locher (2004) entails the need for a very different form of theorisation from the rationalist/objectivist approach presen…
Re-reading and rehabilitating Basil Bernstein
This article constitutes a re-reading of and an attempt to rehabilitate Basil Bernstein, both of which are important in light of the interpretation of Bernstein as a proponent of the verbal deficit view, and the general discrediting of his work on social class differences in the British educational system, as related to what he later called ‘codes’, by scholars like Jensen (Social class and verbal learning, Holt, 1968) and Labov (The logic of non…
Towards an ecocritical postcolonialism
2008). Towards an ecocritical postcolonialism: Val Plumwood’s Environmental Culture in dialogue with Patrick Chamoiseau. Journal of Postcolonial Writing: Vol. 44, New Directions in Postcolonial Studies, pp. 251-261
Using folk songs as a source for dialect change? The pervasive effects of attitudes
The present article argues that the social category of â standardisation' has been instrumental in creating a Foucaultian discourse archive governing what may and what may not be stated on the subject of the history of English. It analyses the question of how language attitudes have been instrumental in creating the myths that have driven the discourse of Standard English since the 19th century, but it goes further than this by showing how langua…
Contested Sources
Situated at the intersection of postcolonial studies and ecocriticism, this essay argues that fresh water is a site of contested representational regimes in French Caribbean literature. The meaning of water in the Caribbean is the result of the encounter between ideas brought together by a wide range of actors, with French and African understandings of water the two most significant. French notions of water's meaning and value circulate throughou…
Relevance theory and verbal interruptions
The Calvin and Hobbes comic strip illustrates that conversations are not contests, although participants may gain and lose discourse status. This paper first examines the nature of interventions, concluding that most of them are not perceived to be interruptive by participants in real-life conversations. In other words, since conversations generally function in cooperative ways, interventions are usually seen to contribute to the interaction. How…
Madrid’s Victory Complex
Essay| October 01 1937 Madrid’s Victory Complex: The Madrilenos remain confident and calm as the new cabinet brings greater unity Richard Watts, Jr. Richard Watts, Jr. Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Current History (1937) 47 (1): 45–48. https://doi.org/10.1525/curh.1937.47.1.45 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Twitter LinkedIn …
An analysis of epistemic possibility and probability 1
The Pragmalinguistic Analysis of Narrative Texts
Americanae nace como un proyecto conjunto que surge dentro de la Red Europea de Información y Documentación sobre América Latina (REDIAL), y que ha afrontado la Biblioteca de la Agencia Española de Cooperación Internacional para el Desarrollo (AECID). Esta nueva biblioteca virtual hace más accesibles los libros digitales de tema americanista a los investigadores y usuarios interesados de cualquier parte del mundo
Language, dialect and national identity in Switzerland
Relevance and relational work
Taking the pitcher to the 'well
Power in Family Discourse
Politeness in Language
This collection of 13 original papers focuses on the phenomenon of politeness in language. It presents the most important problems in developing a theory of linguistic politeness, which must deal with the crucial differences between lay notions of politeness in different cultures and the term ‘politeness’ as a concept within a theory of linguistic politeness. The universal validity of the term itself is called into question, as are models such as…
Acquiring status in conversation
Planning in‐service training courses
The organisation of in‐service training courses for foreign‐language teachers is an important provision made by public education authorities and those responsible for foreign‐language teaching in the private sector (e.g. firms, businesses, international organisations, etc.) to ensure that non‐mother‐tongue teachers renew their contact both with speakers of the foreign‐language and with new methods, teaching materials and theoretical insights into…
Cross-cultural miscommunication in a Swiss day-care center
Genetic Criticism and its Myths
Multilingualism. John Edwards
Relevance theory and verbal interruptions
The Calvin and Hobbes comic strip illustrates that conversations are not contests, although participants may gain and lose discourse status. This paper first examines the nature of interventions, concluding that most of them are not perceived to be interruptive by participants in real-life conversations. In other words, since conversations generally function in cooperative ways, interventions are usually seen to contribute to the interaction. How…
The ideology of dialect in Switzerland
Senghor's Prefaces between the Colonial and the Postcolonial
Over the last one hundred and fifty years or so, whites have expressed their interest in Black African literature, whether in critical essays such as Abbé Grégoire's or in translations such as Blaise Cendrars's. But now francophone Black Africans want to present this literature themselves, and they do so most often by serving as its translators
Politeness
During the fifteen years prior to the first publication of this book in 2003, existing models of linguistic politeness generated a huge amount of empirical research. Using a wide range of data from real-life speech situations, this introduction to politeness breaks away from the limitations of those models and argues that the proper object of study in politeness theory must be commonsense notions of what politeness and impoliteness are. From this…
Toutes ces eaux
Patrick Chamoiseau's latest novel, Biblique des derniers gestes (2002), is a staging of the tension between the defense of local particularity and immersion in what Hardt and Negri call Empire. This tension is explored most visibly through Chamoiseau's literal and figurative uses of water. The protagonist's relation to water constructs Martinican particularity, but it also catapults him into Empire, the network of interests that govern contempora…
Voicing Memory
Book Review| May 01 2005 Voicing Memory: History and Subjectivity in French Caribbean Literature Nick Nesbitt Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 2003 xviii + 258 pp., $18.50 (paper) Richard Watts Richard Watts Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2005) 25 (1): 257–258. https://doi.org/10.1215/1089201X-25-1-257 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter P…
Politeness Theory and Relational Work
In this paper we briefly revisit politeness research influenced by Brown and Levinson's (1987) politeness theory. We argue that this research tradition does not deal with politeness but with the mitigation of face-threatening acts (FTAs) in general. In our understanding, politeness cannot just be equated with FTA-mitigation because politeness is a discursive concept. This means that what is polite (or impolite) should not be predicted by analysts…
Contested Sources
Situated at the intersection of postcolonial studies and ecocriticism, this essay argues that fresh water is a site of contested representational regimes in French Caribbean literature. The meaning of water in the Caribbean is the result of the encounter between ideas brought together by a wide range of actors, with French and African understandings of water the two most significant. French notions of water's meaning and value circulate throughou…
Obituary for Professor Peter H. Nelde
As editor of Multilingua , I wish to convey to our readership the sad news of the death of Prof. Dr. Peter Hans Nelde, Professor of Germanic Linguistics and Director of the Research Center on Multilingualism at the Catholic University of Brussels. I do so with great sorrow as I had known Peter since 1985 when I first met him at the annual meeting of the Societas Linguistica Europæa in Toledo, Spain. Peter died on August 31 this year after a coura…
Chapter 4. Relational work and impoliteness
Rudeness, conceptual blending theory and relational work
The present article takes a discursive approach to the topic of impoliteness, in which conceptualizations of impoliteness are construed in the process of real-time interaction. The term “discursive” refers neither to a conversational analytic approach to interaction nor to one which is derived from principles of Critical Discourse Analysis. It rests rather on lay members' ongoing interpretations of what constitutes inappropriate forms of behaviou…
Towards an ecocritical postcolonialism
2008). Towards an ecocritical postcolonialism: Val Plumwood’s Environmental Culture in dialogue with Patrick Chamoiseau. Journal of Postcolonial Writing: Vol. 44, New Directions in Postcolonial Studies, pp. 251-261
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