Good Tongues, Bad Tongues: Denunciation, Rumour and Revenge in the French Basque Country, 1943–1945

Ott, Sandra

doi:10.1080/02757200600619446

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“…Gellately 1997) have received the greatest attention from researchers, the latter mostly since the fall of the Berlin Wall. To mention some further denunciation contexts: France (Williams 2001) or the French Basque Country under German occupation (Ott 2006) have also been investigated by social historians.…”

Section: Denunciation In Historymentioning

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Infinitives in the 1820 Settler Letters of Denunciation: What can a Contextualised Application of Corpus-Based Results Tell us About the Expression of Persuasion?

Włodarczyk

2010

Poznań Studies in Contemporary Linguistics

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This paper takes issue with Biber's (1988) findings concerning the significance of infinitives for what he calls the "overt expression of persuasion" (Biber 1988: 115). It aims to demonstrate that statistically generated results of research on large electronic corpora of contemporary English may not be verifiable in small, well-contextualised, single-genre collections, such as the one representing 19th century English used in this study. The collection comprises denunciation letters addressed to the colonial authorities (the Colonial Office) by the first British settlers in the Cape Colony (the 1820 Settlers). The letters follow the generic model of petition (Włodarczyk 2010) understood as an official written request. An act of denunciation, as we may assume, contributes to the inherent persuasiveness of petitions by increasing the illocutionary force (in the sense of Searle 1969Searle , 1979) of the letter. Therefore, patterns of distribution of infinitives as markers of persuasion (Biber 1988) are particularly interesting to trace in the 1820 Settler denunciation letters. The paper shows that some of Biber's statements may not be taken as valid generalizations, as the persuasive potential of infinitives may not be corroborated unless each and every token is thoroughly contextualized. Furthermore, an analysis of requests in denunciations conducted within Speech Act Theory (Austin 1962;Searle 1969;Blum-Kulka 1984;Culpeper and Archer 2008) shows that it is first and foremost politeness concerns (cf. Brown and Levinson 1987), not the increased need for persuasiveness, that determine the degree of the illocutionary force of requests.

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Section: Denunciation In Historymentioning

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Infinitives in the 1820 Settler Letters of Denunciation: What can a Contextualised Application of Corpus-Based Results Tell us About the Expression of Persuasion?

Włodarczyk

2010

Poznań Studies in Contemporary Linguistics

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“…120 Sandra Ott has shown how women resisted occupation in France by disseminating information through gossip, rumors, and denunciations. 121 In Haiti, marines often conveyed messages to illiterate peasants or to the insurgency through trusted market women. And vice versa, for they looked to the market women for information about developments beyond the cities.…”

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Personal Occupations: Women's Responses to U.S. Military Occupations in Latin America

McPherson

2010

The Historian

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Popular Justice and Informal Politics: The Charivari in Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century France

Itçaina

2017

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Good Tongues, Bad Tongues: Denunciation, Rumour and Revenge in the French Basque Country, 1943–1945

Cited by 4 publications

References 4 publications

Infinitives in the 1820 Settler Letters of Denunciation: What can a Contextualised Application of Corpus-Based Results Tell us About the Expression of Persuasion?

Infinitives in the 1820 Settler Letters of Denunciation: What can a Contextualised Application of Corpus-Based Results Tell us About the Expression of Persuasion?

Personal Occupations: Women's Responses to U.S. Military Occupations in Latin America

Popular Justice and Informal Politics: The Charivari in Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century France

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