Titlebook: Historical Etiquette; Etiquette Books in N Annick Paternoster Book 2022 The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive li

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Defining Etiquette,alled politeness from the heart, the chapter interrogates how etiquette books relate to the moral core of politeness. The chapter works with two first-order methodologies. Firstly, it proposes a qualitative approach based on the close reading of prefatory material. Secondly, it adopts a quantitative

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The Origin of Etiquette,ut in large historical corpora. After tentative explorations based on Google N-gram Viewer, various historical corpora for US and UK English, Dutch, French and Italian will help establish early occurrences of the term ‘etiquette’ and follow its use over time. Secondly, it provides lexicographic find

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Blunders,e, going from embarrassment to anxiety. The concept of ritual allows anchoring the fear of blundering in the field of politeness studies. As performances, rituals are aimed at a specific audience and actors need to be ratified performers. The chapter zooms in on the risks of non-ratification and the

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Precedence,n which to do certain things. It affects the timing of certain actions, whereby the superior in rank has the right to do something first, and there is a spatial precedence, whereby the superior is entitled to the place of honour. Precedence is first illustrated with a linguistic example, involving a

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Concluding Remarks, it makes limited forays into present-day etiquette to understand if the main characteristics of nineteenth-century etiquette as a historically and geographically situated manifestation of Discernment still apply to today’s vast etiquette discourse, whether that is as paper publications, online guid

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https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-07578-0politeness studies; (im)politeness; historical pragmatics; conduct; morality; ritual; discernment; literary

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Annick PaternosterIntegrates etiquette into the inventory of politeness research and historical pragmatics.Interrogates etiquette books from Italy, France, Belgium, the Netherlands, the UK and the USA.Considers the con