Resumen de The battle of Maldon y St Edmund: una aproximación pragmática desde la teoría de la cortesía lingüística
Pilar Garcés Conejos, Julia Fernández Cuesta
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.
