The battle of Maldon y St Edmund: una aproximación pragmática desde la teoría de la cortesía lingüística

• Autores: Pilar Garcés Conejos, Julia Fernández Cuesta
• Localización: Miscelánea: A journal of english and american studies, ISSN 1137-6368, Nº 15, 1994, págs. 235-262
• Idioma: español
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• Resumen

  • This paper analyses, from the standpoint of the literary pragmatics, and more specifically from linguistic politeness theory, two Old English texts: the heroic poem The Battle of Maldon and Aelfric's prose narrative of King Edmund's life. The aim is double: first, to show that this TYPE of linguistic analysis is adequate for the study of texts from other historical periods, since the pragmatical focus on the TEXT opens up a new interpretive and evaluative dimension. Second, to validate the applicability of politeness theory as an analytical framework in texts and contexts where it has not been commonly applied.