italian-studies: Scholarly discussions in any field of Italian studies
Dear colleagues,
I am very pleased to invite you to the second event in the Italian at Leeds research seminar series 2014-15.
We will welcome Dr Annick Paternoster (Lugano and Leeds), who will be speaking on
'The Reasons for Politeness. The Birth of Contemporary Politeness in the Behavioural Treatises of 19th Century Italy’
Day and time: Wednesday 4th February 2015, 4 pm
Venue: Hillary Place SR (1.24)
All welcome.
Please find below an abstract of the paper and further information about the speaker.
‘The Reasons for Politeness. The Birth of Contemporary Politeness in the Behavioural Treatises of 19th Century Italy’
During the 19th century, Italy is inundated by conduct manuals. There are at least 186 original editions, whereas in the previous century publications on good manners were very few and far between. This stark numerical contrast indicates the birth of a new understanding of politeness that emerged when the political turmoil of the previous century caused the decline of the aristocracy and their code of conduct. It can be anticipated that, during the 19th century, social conventions lose their imperative character. Although they survive in very specific contexts (diplomacy, e.g.), elsewhere a new social order emerges, in which the individual determines a polite way of behaving, by negotiating contextual expectations, social and more local norms, alongside his personal goals.
I will explore this hypothesis for two manuals, the “Nuovo Galateo” by Melchiorre Gioia (1802, 1820, 1822 and 1827, which reach a total of 46 reprints, and “La gente per bene” (1877) by La Marchesa Colombi (pseudonym for Maria Antonietta Torriani), which reaches 27 reprints by 1901 (This research is part of project "The Reasons for Politeness: the Birth of Contemporary Politeness in the Behavioural Treatises of 19th Century Italy", funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation).
Dr Annick Paternoster lectures “Retorica e stilistica” for the Master in Italian Language, Literature and Civilisation at the University of Lugano, Switzerland, since 2007 and is Visiting Research Fellow for the Department of Italian (University of Leeds), since 1999.
Her research focusses on the stylistic analysis of literary dialogue: theoretical dialogue and conduct literature in the 16th century (Castiglione), dialogue in 16th and 18th century comedy (Ariosto, Goldoni) and direct discourse in 19th century novels and in contemporary crime fiction (Manzoni, Collodi, Camilleri). She has become increasingly interested in a new field of research that has developed within historical pragmatics and the pragmatics of politeness: historical (im-)politeness. Past uses of (im-)politeness are studied in close connection with the metadiscourse on (im-)politeness of that historical period. Since September 2014 she is senior researcher for the project "The Reasons for Politeness: the Birth of Contemporary Politeness in the Behavioural Treatises of 19th Century Italy" funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation.
Kind regards,
Federica
Dr Federica Pich
Lecturer in Italian
School of Languages, Cultures and Societies (LCS)
University of Leeds
Leeds
LS2 9JT
UK
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