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Controversies, 2020
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Politeness in Nineteenth-Century Europe, 2019
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Studies in Communication Sciences, 2019
Using a corpus of 40 influential conduct books published in Italy in the long nineteenth century,... more Using a corpus of 40 influential conduct books published in Italy in the long nineteenth century, we apply current insights in the role of values for the emergence and maintenance of conventions developed within the pragmatics of politeness to the prescriptive discourse on fashion, because in these sources norms for verbal and non-verbal behaviour are justified in a similar way. We argue that fashion choices are always said to communicate moral values. Most conduct books reinforce fashion norms by anchoring them in moral values because the authors expect their readers to be morally evaluated in terms of the clothes they wear. We will give an overview of rules regulating bodily hygiene, adornment, dress choice and fashion, and analyse which values are explicitly cited to justify the rules. The positive values such as diligence and parsimony show that fashion morality is seen as a means of self-improvement for the petty bourgeoisie whilst excesses (avarice and laziness on one end and ...
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Lettere Italiane, 2015
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Politeness in Nineteenth-Century Europe, 2019
In 1802 Melchiorre Gioja published the Nuovo Galateo ('New Galateo'), a treatise that supplants t... more In 1802 Melchiorre Gioja published the Nuovo Galateo ('New Galateo'), a treatise that supplants the aristocratic model based on conventional ceremonies with a model based on ragione sociale 'social reason'. The word and its morphological derived lexemes play an important role in the argumentative architecture of the treatise. We hypothesize that reason can be considered an argumentative keyword of the treatise, i.e. a word that evokes beliefs and values that function as endoxa. We examine the collocations and the constructions in which ragione and its derived lexemes enter, and we demonstrate how different key-constructions based on ragione are used to argumentatively justify politeness evaluations. This investigation not only confirms the argumentative keyness of the reason-related constructions, but also casts light on the utilitarian nature of the social reason underlying Gioja's view of politeness.
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Studies in Communication Sciences, 2018
Using a corpus of 40 influential conduct books published in Italy in the long nineteenth century,... more Using a corpus of 40 influential conduct books published in Italy in the long nineteenth century, we apply current insights in the role of values for the emergence and maintenance of conventions developed within the pragmatics of politeness to the prescriptive discourse on fashion, because in these sources norms for verbal and non-verbal behaviour are justified in a similar way. We argue that fashion choices are always said to communicate moral values. Most conduct books reinforce fashion norms by anchoring them in moral values because the authors expect their readers to be morally evaluated in terms of the clothes they wear. We will give an overview of rules regulating bodily hygiene, adornment, dress choice and fashion, and analyse which values are explicitly cited to justify the rules. The positive values such as diligence and parsimony show that fashion morality is seen as a means of self-improvement for the petty bourgeoisie whilst excesses (avarice and laziness on one end and vanity and frivolity on the other) lead to poverty. Our sources predominantly regulate fashion with personal, ego-centered values. This is markedly different from the current debate on sustainable fashion, led by social values such as compassion and altruism. With this historical paper we hope to contribute to the discussion of new approaches for the analysis of moralising discourse in fashion communication.
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L’articolo presenta un episodio di argomentazione esplicita sulla cortesia: la disputa sorta tra ... more L’articolo presenta un episodio di argomentazione esplicita sulla cortesia: la disputa sorta tra Melchiorre Gioja e Antonio Rosmini circa il capitolo Apologia della moda contenuto nel Nuovo Galateo (1820) di Melchiorre Gioja. Si prendono in esame, in particolare, le giustificazioni argomentative dei commenti metapragmatici, e le fallacie attribuite da Rosmini a Gioja nel Galateo de’letterati (1828).
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Between 1800 and 1920, 186 conduct books are printed in Italy, totalling at least 450 editions. (... more Between 1800 and 1920, 186 conduct books are printed in Italy, totalling at least 450 editions. (Im)politeness rules and formulae are found in 22 sources; we compare them with present-day (im)politeness strategies (Brown and Levinson, Leech, Culpeper, Bousfield). Whilst there are numerous similarities with 21st century Italian, formulae in the context of deference, attentiveness and requests refer to an older politeness model, based on social class hierarchy.
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This essay proposes a new interpretative hypothesis with regards to the composition of Italo Calv... more This essay proposes a new interpretative hypothesis with regards to the composition of Italo Calvino’s short story La giornata d’uno scrutatore. In particular, the objective is to illustrate the link between the calvinian short story (ready in its definitive version January 1963) and the one which is written in these very years by Aleksandr Solženicyn, Una giornata di Ivan Denisovicˇ (published in «Il Giorno» November 1962). The article retraces the historical steps leading to the hypothesis of a possible influence of the Russian short story on the Italian one: the publication of the book with Einaudi, its interpretation proposed by the West, the historical circumstances experienced by Calvino in these precise years and, finally, what Solženicyn and Ivan Denisovicˇ could have represented for the writer from Liguria.
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Le regole del bon ton cambiano ma sono ancora oggetto di discussione e mode. Con l’avvento della ... more Le regole del bon ton cambiano ma sono ancora oggetto di discussione e mode. Con l’avvento della borghesia in Europa nel XIX secolo, la nuova classe dirigente vuole promuovere un codice comportamentale che la rispecchi. Si pubblicano quindi numerosi galatei, rivolti a un pubblico di fanciulli e adolescenti e d’altra parte vedono la luce i cosiddetti libri di etichetta, dedicati alla figura della signora, dal tono più coinvolgente e spesso ironico. Proprio da questi galatei sono tratti la maggior parte dei brani raccolti in questa divertente antologia: basti l’esempio della celebre Gente per bene della Marchesa Colombi, ancora contemporaneo e godibilissimo nella lettura.
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Controversies, 2020
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Politeness in Nineteenth-Century Europe, 2019
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Studies in Communication Sciences, 2019
Using a corpus of 40 influential conduct books published in Italy in the long nineteenth century,... more Using a corpus of 40 influential conduct books published in Italy in the long nineteenth century, we apply current insights in the role of values for the emergence and maintenance of conventions developed within the pragmatics of politeness to the prescriptive discourse on fashion, because in these sources norms for verbal and non-verbal behaviour are justified in a similar way. We argue that fashion choices are always said to communicate moral values. Most conduct books reinforce fashion norms by anchoring them in moral values because the authors expect their readers to be morally evaluated in terms of the clothes they wear. We will give an overview of rules regulating bodily hygiene, adornment, dress choice and fashion, and analyse which values are explicitly cited to justify the rules. The positive values such as diligence and parsimony show that fashion morality is seen as a means of self-improvement for the petty bourgeoisie whilst excesses (avarice and laziness on one end and ...
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Lettere Italiane, 2015
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Politeness in Nineteenth-Century Europe, 2019
In 1802 Melchiorre Gioja published the Nuovo Galateo ('New Galateo'), a treatise that supplants t... more In 1802 Melchiorre Gioja published the Nuovo Galateo ('New Galateo'), a treatise that supplants the aristocratic model based on conventional ceremonies with a model based on ragione sociale 'social reason'. The word and its morphological derived lexemes play an important role in the argumentative architecture of the treatise. We hypothesize that reason can be considered an argumentative keyword of the treatise, i.e. a word that evokes beliefs and values that function as endoxa. We examine the collocations and the constructions in which ragione and its derived lexemes enter, and we demonstrate how different key-constructions based on ragione are used to argumentatively justify politeness evaluations. This investigation not only confirms the argumentative keyness of the reason-related constructions, but also casts light on the utilitarian nature of the social reason underlying Gioja's view of politeness.
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Studies in Communication Sciences, 2018
Using a corpus of 40 influential conduct books published in Italy in the long nineteenth century,... more Using a corpus of 40 influential conduct books published in Italy in the long nineteenth century, we apply current insights in the role of values for the emergence and maintenance of conventions developed within the pragmatics of politeness to the prescriptive discourse on fashion, because in these sources norms for verbal and non-verbal behaviour are justified in a similar way. We argue that fashion choices are always said to communicate moral values. Most conduct books reinforce fashion norms by anchoring them in moral values because the authors expect their readers to be morally evaluated in terms of the clothes they wear. We will give an overview of rules regulating bodily hygiene, adornment, dress choice and fashion, and analyse which values are explicitly cited to justify the rules. The positive values such as diligence and parsimony show that fashion morality is seen as a means of self-improvement for the petty bourgeoisie whilst excesses (avarice and laziness on one end and vanity and frivolity on the other) lead to poverty. Our sources predominantly regulate fashion with personal, ego-centered values. This is markedly different from the current debate on sustainable fashion, led by social values such as compassion and altruism. With this historical paper we hope to contribute to the discussion of new approaches for the analysis of moralising discourse in fashion communication.
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L’articolo presenta un episodio di argomentazione esplicita sulla cortesia: la disputa sorta tra ... more L’articolo presenta un episodio di argomentazione esplicita sulla cortesia: la disputa sorta tra Melchiorre Gioja e Antonio Rosmini circa il capitolo Apologia della moda contenuto nel Nuovo Galateo (1820) di Melchiorre Gioja. Si prendono in esame, in particolare, le giustificazioni argomentative dei commenti metapragmatici, e le fallacie attribuite da Rosmini a Gioja nel Galateo de’letterati (1828).
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Between 1800 and 1920, 186 conduct books are printed in Italy, totalling at least 450 editions. (... more Between 1800 and 1920, 186 conduct books are printed in Italy, totalling at least 450 editions. (Im)politeness rules and formulae are found in 22 sources; we compare them with present-day (im)politeness strategies (Brown and Levinson, Leech, Culpeper, Bousfield). Whilst there are numerous similarities with 21st century Italian, formulae in the context of deference, attentiveness and requests refer to an older politeness model, based on social class hierarchy.
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This essay proposes a new interpretative hypothesis with regards to the composition of Italo Calv... more This essay proposes a new interpretative hypothesis with regards to the composition of Italo Calvino’s short story La giornata d’uno scrutatore. In particular, the objective is to illustrate the link between the calvinian short story (ready in its definitive version January 1963) and the one which is written in these very years by Aleksandr Solženicyn, Una giornata di Ivan Denisovicˇ (published in «Il Giorno» November 1962). The article retraces the historical steps leading to the hypothesis of a possible influence of the Russian short story on the Italian one: the publication of the book with Einaudi, its interpretation proposed by the West, the historical circumstances experienced by Calvino in these precise years and, finally, what Solženicyn and Ivan Denisovicˇ could have represented for the writer from Liguria.
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Le regole del bon ton cambiano ma sono ancora oggetto di discussione e mode. Con l’avvento della ... more Le regole del bon ton cambiano ma sono ancora oggetto di discussione e mode. Con l’avvento della borghesia in Europa nel XIX secolo, la nuova classe dirigente vuole promuovere un codice comportamentale che la rispecchi. Si pubblicano quindi numerosi galatei, rivolti a un pubblico di fanciulli e adolescenti e d’altra parte vedono la luce i cosiddetti libri di etichetta, dedicati alla figura della signora, dal tono più coinvolgente e spesso ironico. Proprio da questi galatei sono tratti la maggior parte dei brani raccolti in questa divertente antologia: basti l’esempio della celebre Gente per bene della Marchesa Colombi, ancora contemporaneo e godibilissimo nella lettura.
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