Gudrun Held

Biographic Data

ID693151
NAMEGudrun Held
GIVEN NAMESGudrun
FAMILY NAMEHeld
SIGNATUREHELD G
AFFILIATIONSUniversity of Salzburg
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS15
TOTAL CITATIONS13
WORKS AS AUTHOR15
WORKS AS EDITOR0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1989
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2026
H-INDEX2

  • Zur Einführung

    Open AccessGudrun Held, Michael Messner et al.ARTICLELinguistik Online2026

    This special issue investigates the linguistic and multimodal representation of spatiality and temporality as core cognitive dimensions in contemporary discourse. Emphasizing their interdependence, the contributions examine how space and time are conceptually integrated, semantically mediated, and pragmatically realized across a range of communicative and medial contexts. Drawing on approaches from cognitive linguistics, interactional linguistics…

  • The Italian Bella Figura – a challenge for politeness theories

    Open AccessGudrun HeldARTICLEJournal of Politeness Research2024References: 7

    This paper examines the Italian folk concept of bella figura in the framework of politeness-theories and the various binary conceptions it provides for explaining the nature of human communication. BF is a culture-specific understanding of self-projection in everyday discourse: It is both, a cognitive concept concerning the “beautiful” embodiment of self, and a performative concept concerning the active “figuring out” of a bella figura in order t…

  • A culture of “pleasing”

    Open AccessGudrun HeldARTICLEJournal of Historical Pragmatics2023References: 5

    This paper seeks to explain the development of European politeness as a result of courtly behaviour where “complaisance” played an important role. As traces left in the so-called “language of politeness” of numerous European linguacultures show, mutual “pleasing” determined social performance in hierarchically organised societies by merging aesthetic concepts of form and order with ethical values of benevolence and charity. An analysis of the lex…

  • Submission strategies as an expression of the ideology of politeness

    Open AccessGudrun HeldARTICLEPragmatics Quarterly Publication…2022

    If we understand ideology as the crystallisation, dissemination and consolidation of ideas about the world and of viewpoints that serve the interests of specific groups and help to implement social value structures, we are automatically compelled to consider a connection with politeness. As a catalogue of well-tried modes of conduct, politeness regulates social interaction, so that a minimisation of potential conflicts can lead to a maximisation …

  • Soziolinguistische Bibliographie europäischer Länder für 2018Sociolinguistic Bibliography of European Countries for 2018Bibliographie sociolinguistique des pays européens pour 2018

    Jeroen Darquennes, Birte Kellermeier-Rehbein et al.ARTICLESociolinguistica - International…2020

  • Korrespondenten/Correspondents/Correspondants

    Open AccessGudrun Held, Jeroen Darquennes et al.ARTICLESociolinguistica - International…2020

  • Tourism Discourse. Language and Global Mobility

    Open AccessGudrun HeldARTICLEJournal of Pragmatics2015References: 1

  • Supplica la mia parvidade

    Gudrun HeldARTICLEJournal of Historical Pragmatics2010

    This paper studies the public communication act of petitions made in the Middle Ages by subjects to their governors in situations of high personal need. Analysing an edited corpus of correspondence in Anglo-Norman and Italian chancelleries of the early thirteenth to the late fifteenth century, I attempt to identify verbal means that are related to what is today defined as “face” and “facework”, and to discuss this evidence in the tension modern p…

  • Österreichische Soziolinguistik (1987 1997) Ein Forschungsüberblick

    Gudrun HeldARTICLESociolinguistica - International…1999

  • Le facce del parlare

    Open AccessGudrun HeldARTICLEJournal of Pragmatics1996Cited by: 3References: 2

  • Aspekte des Zusammenhangs zwischen Höflichkeit und Sprache in der vorpragmatischen Sprachwissenschaft

    Gudrun HeldARTICLEZeitschrift für romanische…1992

    Article Aspekte des Zusammenhangs zwischen Höflichkeit und Sprache in der vorpragmatischen Sprachwissenschaft was published on January 1, 1992 in the journal Zeitschrift für romanische Philologie (volume 108, issue 1-2).

  • Sprechen als Ethnomethode – oder

    Gudrun HeldCHAPTERLinguistische Interaktionsanalysen1991

  • Möglichkeiten Der Entschärfung Sozialer Übertretungshandlungen

    Gudrun HeldCHAPTERDialoganalyse III Tl. 11991

  • Parallela

    Yakov Malkiel, Maurizio Dardano et al.ARTICLEItalica1990

  • On the role of maximization in verbal politeness

    Gudrun HeldARTICLEMultilingua1989Cited by: 10