Open AccessWierność, powinność, uniżoność i inne kategorie grzeczności językowej w finalnych formułach epistolarnych XVIII wieku
Author(s) -
Katarzyna Sicińska
Publication year - 1970
Publication title -
poznańskie studia polonistyczne. seria językoznawcza
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2450-4939
pISSN - 1233-8672
DOI - 10.14746/pspsj.2020.27.1.11
Subject(s) - aristocracy (class) , etiquette , nobility , politeness , servant , linguistics , obedience , philosophy , mathematics , history , literature , art , law , computer science , political science , politics , programming language
The article is a study of politeness formulae retained in the eighteenth-century epistolography expressing certain feelings and attitudes of the sender towards the addressee, namely: good will (z prawdziwym afektem), faithfulness (z należytą obserwancją), gratefulness (z nieskończoną rekognicją), duty (z niewzruszoną obligacją), obedience (z najgłębszą submisją). One can treat them as one common category of etiquette because of their approximate semantic value, common pragmatic aim, very similar formal structure and the same final location in the epistolary text. The analysis was based on 305 original, handwritten and unpublished eighteenth-century letters written by several dozens of noblemen. The presented formulae appeared mainly in contacts between the representatives of the aristocracy and the nobility.