Cortesía verbal y citas de scripta imperatoris en el panegírico latino
ISSN: 1130-3336
Year of publication: 2003
Issue Title: LITERATURA ÁULICA Y LÉXICO
Issue: 14
Pages: 145-154
Type: Article
More publications in: Voces
Abstract
The quotation of scripta imperatoris in Latin prose panegyric conveys two different ways of politeness in language use: orator's politeness and emperor's one. In order to study this question, are suitable here concepts such as «positive politeness» and «negative politeness», both of them used when analysing politeness phenomena in oral discourse. It is possible to state that the orator, in referring to the emperor as author of a written text, uses strategies either of positive or negative politeness, depending if he means to emphasize or minimize the distance between emperor and subject. However, the imperial text is an example of negative politeness: the emperor relinquishes the authoritarian discourse, so he can prove his ciuilitas.