A Grammar of Authority? Directive speech acts and terms of address in two single-genre corpora of Classical French
Annette Gerstenberg & Carine Skupien Dekens
| Résumé |
Directive Speech Acts (DSAs) are a major feature of historical
pragmatics, specifically in research on historical (im)politeness.
However, for Classical French, there is a lack of research on
related phenomena. In our contribution, we present two recently
constructed corpora covering the period of Classical French, SERMO
and APWCF. We present these corpora in terms of their genre
characteristics on a communicative–functional and socio-pragmatic
level. Based on the observation that, both in SERMO and APWCF, DSAs
frequently occur together with terms of address, we analyse and
manually code a sample based on this co-occurrence, and we compare
the results with regard to special features in the individual
corpora. The emerging patterns show a clear correspondence between
socio-pragmatic factors and the linguistic means used to realise
DSAs. We propose that these results can be interpreted as signs of
an underlying “grammar of authority”. |
| Mots-clés |
sermons ; corpus ; directive speech acts ; terms of address ; correspondence ; politeness |
| Citation | Gerstenberg, A., & Skupien Dekens, C. (2021). A Grammar of Authority? Directive speech acts and terms of address in two single-genre corpora of Classical French. Journal of Historical Pragmatics, Novembre 2021, 1-33. |
| Type | Article de périodique (Anglais) |
| Date de publication | 16-11-2021 |
| Nom du périodique | Journal of Historical Pragmatics |
| Volume | Novembre 2021 |
| Pages | 1-33 |
| URL | https://doi.org/10.1075/jhp.17006.ger |
| Liée au projet | SERMO I: méthode d’annotation et d’exploitation de corpus... |