The Pragmatics of Hypocrisy
Editors : Sandrine Sorlin | University Paul-Valéry – Montpellier 3 & Tuija Virtanen | Åbo Akademi University
https://benjamins.com/catalog/pbns.343
As a first attempt to date, this book addresses the notion of hypocrisy from a pragmatic perspective and devises a comprehensive model of verbal hypocrisy. The studies included adopt emic and etic approaches in order to contribute jointly towards an understanding of what appears to be a ubiquitous and multifaceted phenomenon. Going beyond hypocrisy as a mere moral vice, this volume establishes its pragmatic space and confronts it with adjacent notions which, unlike hypocrisy, have been subject to pragmatic examination. The Pragmatics of Hypocrisy is of interest to students and scholars in pragmatics, discourse analysis, sociolinguistics, rhetoric, communication and media studies, as well as corpus linguistics, and by its transdisciplinary nature, to researchers in philosophy, sociology, and political science. It is also essential reading for anyone interested in the interplay between language, culture and society, across varieties and registers of English.
Table of contents
List of contributors
Part I. Introducing and theorizing hypocrisy
Chapter 1. Introduction to hypocrisy
Sandrine Sorlin and Tuija Virtanen
Chapter 2. A pragmatic model of hypocrisy
Sandrine Sorlin and Tuija Virtanen
Part II. Metapragmatic approaches to hypocrisy
Chapter 3. Politics, religion, and drama: Exploring the metapragmatics of hypocrisy
Mathew Gillings
Chapter 4. “Ding ding ding we have a hypocrite!”: The metapragmatics of verbal hypocrisy in discussion forum interaction
Sanna-Kaisa Tanskanen
Part III. Hypocrisy and authenticity in political and public discourse
Chapter 5. Hypocrisy, authenticity, and the rhetorical dynamics of populism
Martin Gill
Chapter 6. Apology as hypocrisy: Examples from Bill Clinton and Donald Trump
Helena Halmari
Part IV. Benign hypocrisy
Chapter 7. Ostensible offers, politeness and sincere hypocrisy
Michael Haugh
Chapter 8. Pretending to pretend: Performing “autohypocrisy” in online discourse
Tuija Virtanen
Part V. The ubiquity of hypocrisy
Chapter 9. The – mostly – brighter side of hypocrisy and the concept of face
Jim O’Driscoll
Chapter 10. A plea for hypocrisy: Pragma-philosophical considerations
Sandrine Sorlin
Part VI. Closing
Chapter 11. An epilogue and note on cross-cultural hypocrisy
Jonathan Culpeper
Index
Home. Les sens d'une maison
J. Feyereisen, R. Gangemi, A. Sepp, D. Houdmont
This book is the result of a critical and collective long-term reflection that originates in the cycle of interuniversity seminars, Home, initiated in Brussels in 2018, around the polysemic aspects and porous borders of the notion of ‘home’. Any attempt at definition raises the question of whether home corresponds to a place, a space, a feeling—in the singularor plural—, to practices or states of being in the world, as well as to its inhabitants, their concrete and symbolic lives, their memories and their class, gender, generational, and racial relations. And we will raise it from the point of view of contemporary literature and arts to better grasp their role in the understanding of a domestic spatiality.
Cet ouvrage est le réceptacle d’une réflexion critique et collective au long cours qui trouve son origine dans le cycle de séminaires interuniversitaires, Home, initié à Bruxelles en 2018, autour des facettes polysémiques et des frontières poreuses de la notion de « home ». Toute tentative de définition pose la question de savoir si home correspond à un lieu, un espace, un sentiment — au singulier ou au pluriel —, à des pratiques ou à des états d’être au monde, ainsi qu’à ses habitants, à leur vie concrète et symbolique, à leur mémoire et à leurs rapports de classe, de genre, de génération et de race. Et nous la poserons à partir de la littérature et des arts contemporains afin d’en comprendre le rôle dans cette appréhension d’une spatialité domestique.
Experimental Translation. The Work of Translation in the Age of Algorithmic Production
By Lily Robert-Foley
ISBN : 9781913380700
Published: February 20, 2024
Publisher: Goldsmiths Press
The history and future of an alternative, oppositional translation practice.
The threat of machine translation has given way to an alternative, experimental practice of translation that reflects upon and hijacks traditional paradigms. In much the same way that photography initiated a break in artistic practices with the threat of an absolute fidelity to the real, machine translation has paradoxically liberated human translators to err, to diverge, to tamper with the original, blurring creation and imitation with cyborg collage and appropriation. Seven chapters reimagine seven classic “procedures” of translation theory and pedagogy: borrowing, calque, literal translation, transposition, modulation, equivalence, and adaptation, updating them for the material political and poetic concerns of the contemporary era. Each chapter combines reflections from translation studies and experimental literature with practical guides, sets of experimental translation “procedures” to try at home or abroad, in the classroom, the laboratory, the garden, the dance hall, the city, the kitchen, the library, the shopping center, the supermarket, the train, the bus, the airplane, the post office, on the radio, on your phone, on your computer, and on the internet.
Now You See Her. How Lesbian Culture Won Over America
Now You See Her. How Lesbian Culture Won Over America
Anne Crémieux
pISBN: 978-1-4766-8581-6 eISBN: 978-1-4766-4816-3
Imprint: McFarland
Over the past thirty years, queer women have been coming out of the media closet to enter the mainstream consciousness. This book explores the rise of lesbian visibility since the 1990s with in-depth historical analyses of representation in sports, music, photography, comics, television and cinema. Each chapter is complemented by an interview: soccer player and coach Saskia Webber, singer-songwriter Gretchen Phillips, photographer Lola Flash, cartoonist Alison Bechdel and filmmakers Jamie Babbit and Anna Margarita Albelo discuss the societal transformations that shaped their careers. From the “riot grrrl” movement of the early 1990s punk scene to screen representations of queer culture (The L Word, Orange Is the New Black), this book discusses how lesbian presence successfully infiltrated several patriarchal strongholds, and was transformed in return.
The Poetics and Ethics of Attention in Contemporary British Narrative
Jean-Michel Ganteau. The Poetics and Ethics of Attention in Contemporary British Narrative. Londres et New York: Routledge, 2023. ISBN 9781032423203
This book uses attention as a prism through which to interrogate the literary text. It starts from analyses of the changes that the mediasphere and communication technologies have brought for the contemporary subject, submitting him/her to the tyranny of a new attention economy. My point is that the contemporary novel and memoir resist such influences and evince a great deal of resilience by promoting an “ecology of attention” (Citton) based on poetic options whose pragmatic effect is to develop an ethics of the particularist type. To do this, I draw on critical and theoretical literature hailing from various fields: psychology, but also more prominently phenomenology, political philosophy, and analytical philosophy (essentially Ordinary Language Philosophy), alongside the ethics of care and vulnerability. By using a selection of fictional and non-fictional narratives, I address such issues as social invisibilities, climate change, AI and cognitive disability and end up drafting a poetics of attention.
The Duty to Presence / Le devoir de présence
Lily Robert-Foley
The Duty to Presence / Le devoir de présence
Éditeur Presses universitaires de Rouen et du Havre
ISBN-13 9791024017136
"The women are everywhere in this book. Their names are sprinkled across its pages, but more than that, their influence can be felt in all my ideas, and in the rhythm and body of my words. They are the single biggest influence on my own feminism, which is a shared feminism (I hope), and this book is nothing if it is not a kind of feminist manifesto (I hope). Much of the work here is about me trying to reconcile our shared feminism with my evolving into motherhood, a journey that sometimes represented some contradictions for me, but in the end turned out to be an enriching, complex layering of my feminism, like plants growing together in a garden. Feminism, for me, is always becoming, never still, always self-critiquing, sprouting and blooming, dying, becoming seed again." (Lily Robert-Foley)
Summary of Unequal Seansons
Remembering something I had never known
First notebook: The bird on the branch
Dear Mom–Mother's Day 2019
Second notebook: A year of sun
Years and Moms–For Cathy
Third notebook: The bear with the umbrella
How to Love–For Elisabeth, on her 70th birthday
Fourth notebook: White paper
Folk Song for Felix–Sung
Bestiary of Words Found
Lulling Prayer for Félix–Sung
Bibliography
Afterword: Questions to Lily Robert-Foley
Acknowledgments
Author's Bibliography
Writers at War. Exploring the Prose of Ford Madox Ford, May Sinclair, Siegfried Sassoon and Mary Borden
By Isabelle Brasme
Copyright Year 2023
ISBN 9781032219936
Writers at War addresses the most immediate representations of the First World War in the prose of Ford Madox Ford, May Sinclair, Siegfried Sassoon and Mary Borden; it interrogates the various ways in which these writers contended with conveying their war experience from the temporal and spatial proximity of the warzone and investigates the multifarious impact of the war on the (re)development of their aesthetics. It also interrogates to what extent these texts aligned with or challenged existing social, cultural, philosophical and aesthetic norms.
While this book is concerned with literary technique, the rich existing scholarship on questions of gender, trauma and cultural studies on World War I literature serves as a foundation. This book does not oppose these perspectives but offers a complementary approach based on close critical reading. The distinctiveness of this study stems from its focus on the question of representation and form and on the specific role of the war in the four authors’ literary careers. This is the first scholarly work concerned exclusively with theorising prose written from the immediacy of the war.
The Poetics and Ethics of (Un-)Grievability in Contemporary Anglophone Fiction
Edited By Susana Onega & Jean-Michel Ganteau
First Published 2022, Routledge
https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003347811
The working hypothesis of the book is that, since the 1990s, an increasing number of Anglophone fictions are responding to the new ethical and political demands arising out of the facts of war, exclusion, climate change, contagion, posthumanism and other central issues of our post-trauma age by adapting the conventions of traditional forms of expressing grievability, such as elegy, testimony or (pseudo-)autobiography. Situating themselves in the wake of Judith Butler’s work on (un-)grievablability, the essays collected in this volume seek to cast new light on these issues by delving into the socio-cultural constructions of grievability and other types of vulnerabilities, invisibilities and inaudibilities linked with the neglect and/or abuse of non-normative individuals and submerged groups that have been framed as disposable, exploitable and/or unmournable by such determinant factors as sex, gender, ethnic origin, health, etc., thereby refining and displacing the category of subalternity associated with the poetics of postmodernism.
The Routledge Companion to Caste and Cinema in India
Edited by Joshil K. Abraham & Judith Misrahi-Barak
This companion is the first study of caste and its representation in Indian cinema. It unravels the multiple layers of caste that feature directly and indirectly in Indian movies, to examine not only the many ways caste pervades Indian society and culture but also how the struggle against it adopts multiple strategies.
The companion:
• critiques Indian cinema production through the lens of anti-caste discourse;
• traces the history of films beginning from the early twentieth century, focusing on caste representations across India, including Hindi, Malayalam, Kannada, Marathi, Bengali, Punjabi, Tamil as well as silent films;
• makes a foray into OTT media;
• includes analysis of popular films such as Padmaavat, Masaan, Fandry, Sairat, Sujata, Article 15, Chomana Dudi, Lagaan, Court, Ee.Ma.Yau, Kaala, Pariyerum Perumal, Perariyathavar, among many others, to critique and problematise the idea of caste.
A major intervention, this book alters traditional approaches to ‘caste’ in Indian cinemas and society and explores new political strategies implemented through cinematic creation and aesthetics. It will be indispensable for scholars and researchers of film studies, social discrimination and exclusion studies, human rights, popular culture, and South Asian studies. It will also be of interest to enthusiasts of Indian cinematic history.
Eat your Heart Out
Eat your Heart Out - The Lifework of Kathy Acker
Texts edited by Valérie Rauzier
What makes the work of the American experimental writer Kathy Acker so utterly relevant today, almost thirty years after her passing? The articles collected in this volume aim to provide answers to this question. Indeed, through studies of both Acker’s published and unpublished works, analyses of her writing process, and pieces blurring the boundaries between critical and creative writing, these articles map the writer’s body of works and weave webs the way the “Black Tarantula” would. Kathy Acker was part of a tradition of literary radicals and rebels of the 20th century avant-garde that flourished in the Counterculture and continued in the punk culture. Through acts of literary piracy and shock tactics, she unveiled and stood against techniques of domination and control. Indeed, she appropriated others’ texts, subverted genres and genders and thus challenged the rigidity of meaning and identity to allow them to fluctuate and flow. These texts confirm the central roles of both body and language in Acker’s works as spaces of friction between power and liberation and position the writer as a radical practitioner, a visionary.
Valérie Rauzier is the author of a doctoral thesis on Kathy Acker entitled Diamanda Galás et Kathy Acker : contre-pouvoir à corps et à cris. Her interests encompass cultural and queer studies as well as music, literature, feminism and alternative media. She lives in Oslo, Norway, where she teaches English.
Ending Slavery
Ending Slavery (Lawrence Aje, Claudine Raynaud)
Ending Slavery broadens the scope of the antislavery struggle beyond the national narrative to draw a map of a new transnational and differentiated geography of abolitionism. It aims at complicating our understanding of the antislavery struggle by offering an opportunity to rethink the relationship between the personal and the political in the antebellum period. Focusing on the post-1830 period, Ending Slavery also presents a new and ambitious periodization by extending its historical breadth through Reconstruction, well into the present, to examine contemporary representations and interpretations of the history of abolitionism. The book puts forward a reflection on the historiographical and memorial legacies of antislavery activity in the United States and interrogates how this activism partook and still partakes in the long Civil Rights Movement for full social and political equality for African Americans. Ending Slavery ambitions to expand discussions and open new perspectives on the history of abolitionism, slavery and Atlantic studies.
Ending Slavery élargit le champ de la lutte anti-esclavagiste au-delà du récit national étasunien pour dessiner la carte d’une nouvelle géographie transnationale et différenciée de l’abolitionnisme. Il complexifie notre compréhension de la lutte anti-esclavagiste en proposant de repenser la relation entre le personnel et le politique avant la guerre de Sécession. En se concentrant sur la période postérieure à 1830, Ending Slavery offre une périodisation nouvelle t ambitieuse qui recouvre la période de la Reconstruction et s’ouvre sur le présent par un examen des représentations et les interprétations contemporaines de l’histoire de l’abolitionnisme. L’ouvrage met en avant une réflexion sur l’héritage historiographique et mémoriel de l’activité anti-esclavagiste aux États-Unis et interroge la façon dont cet activisme a été partie prenante et continue d’être au cœur du mouvement des droits civiques pour l’égalité sociale et politique des Africains Américains. Son ambition est de contribuer à enrichir les discussions et ouvrir de nouvelles perspectives sur l’histoire de l’abolitionnisme, de l’esclavage et des études atlantiques.
Women translators of religious texts (Adriana Şerban & Rim Hassen )
Adriana Şerban (Université Paul-Valéry Montpellier 3) & Rim Hassen (Durham County Council)
Issue 34(1) of Parallèles
A new issue of Parallèles dedicated to women translators of religious texts has just been published.
Parallèles features research in translation and interpreting, as well as other forms of multilingual and multimodal communication. The journal is gold open access, indexed with the main scientific databases, and operates under a continuous publication model.
Transnationalism and Imperialism: Endurance of the Global Western Film
By Hervé Mayer and David Roche
Contributions by Patrick Adamson, Costanza Salvi, Marine Soubeille, Dragan Batančev, Hadrien Fontanaud, Marek Paryż, Jesús Ángel González, Alessandra Magrin Haas, Lee Broughton, Mike Phillips, Jenny Barrett, Vivian P. Y. Lee, Claire Dutriaux, Annael Le Poullennec and Emma Hamilton
Published by: Indiana University Press
While Western films can be seen as a mode of American exceptionalism, they have also become a global genre. Around the world, Westerns exemplify colonial cinema, driven by the exploration of racial and gender hierarchies and the progress and violence shaped by imperialism.
Transnationalism and Imperialism: Endurance of the Global Western Film traces the Western from the silent era to present day as the genre has circulated the world. Contributors examine the reception and production of American Westerns outside the US alongside the transnational aspects of American productions, and they consider the work of minority directors who use the genre to interrogate a visual history of oppression. By viewing Western films through a transnational lens and focusing on the reinterpretations, appropriations, and parallel developments of the genre outside the US, editors Hervé Mayer and David Roche contribute to a growing body of literature that debunks the pervasive correlation between the genre and American identity.
Perfect for media studies and political science, Transnationalism and Imperialism reveals that Western films are more than cowboys; they are a critical intersection where issues of power and coloniality are negotiated.
Hervé Mayer is Assistant Professor of American studies and cinema in Montpellier, France. He is author of Guerre sauvage & empire de la liberté (Savage war and empire of liberty) and La Construction de l'Ouest américain dans le cinéma hollywoodien (The construction of the American West in Hollywood cinema) and has published several articles about the Western and the politics of US cinema.
David Roche is Professor of film studies in Montpellier, France. He is author of Quentin Tarantino: Poetics and Politics of Cinematic Metafiction and Making and Remaking Horror in the 1970s and 2000s: Why Don't They Do It Like They Used To?. He is editor (with Cristelle Maury) of Women Who Kill: Gender and Sexuality in Film and Series of the Post-Feminist Era.
The Rhetoric of Literary Communication. From Classical English Novels to Contemporary Digital Fiction
Edited by Virginie Iché & Sandrine Sorlin (New York, London: Routledge, 2022)
Building on the notion of fiction as communicative act, this collection brings together an interdisciplinary range of scholars to examine the evolving relationship between authors and readers in fictional works from 18th-century English novels through to contemporary digital fiction.
The book showcases a diverse range of contributions from scholars in stylistics, rhetoric, pragmatics, and literary studies to offer new ways of looking at the "author–reader channel," drawing on work from Roger Sell, Jean-Jacques Lecercle, and James Phelan. The volume traces the evolution of its form across historical periods, genres, and media, from its origins in the conversational mode of direct address in 18th-century English novels to the use of second-person narratives in the 20th century through to 21st-century digital fiction with its implicit requirement for reader participation. The book engages in questions of how the author–reader channel is shaped by different forms, and how this continues to evolve in emerging contemporary genres and of shifting ethics of author and reader involvement.
This book will be of particular interest to students and scholars interested in the intersection of pragmatics, stylistics, and literary studies.
Table of Contents
Introductory Chapter: Addressing Readers: New Theoretical Perspectives
Virginie Iché & Sandrine Sorlin (Paul-Valéry University of Montpellier, France)
I. Ethical Transactions with Readers
Chapter 1. Authorial risk-taking: The relationship between Dickens and his readers
Roger Sell (Åbo Akademi University, Turku, Finland)
Chapter 2. "I hope I shall please my readers": Negotiating the Author-Reader Relationship in Two Corpora of British Novels, 1778-1814
Juliette Misset (University of Strasbourg, France)
Chapter 3. "You are my fictional audience, and as such I appreciate you very much": Direct Address in Contemporary American Young Adult Fiction About Mental Health
Sara K. Day (Truman State University, USA)
II. Revisiting Authorial Agency
Chapter 4. Interpellation and Counter-interpellation in the Novel
Jean-Jacques Lecercle (University of Paris Ouest Nanterre, France)
Chapter 5. Deciphering the Joycean Address: Elusive Authority and Reader Agency in Ulysses
Olivier Hercend (Sorbonne University, France)
Chapter 6. "The Rest is Silence": Readerly Wo/anderings in the Unsaid
Claire Majola-Leblond (University Jean Moulin - Lyon 3, France)
III. Challenging Readers
Chapter 7. (Im)politeness and the Question of Address in Flannery O’Connor’s Wise Blood: a Pragmatics Approach
Maurice Cronin (Paris Dauphine, France)
Chapter 8. Phatic, Polemical, and Metaleptic Addresses to Readers in William Gerhardie’s The Polyglots
Catherine Hoffman (University of Le Havre-Normandie, France)
Chapter 9. Humouring the Reader in Alan Bennett’s "A Chip in the Sugar"
Vanina Jobert-Martini & Manuel Jobert (University Jean Moulin - Lyon 3, France)
IV. From Oral to Digital Fiction and Back
Chapter 10. "You know, are you you?" Being versus Playing the Second-Person in Digital Fiction
Alice Bell (Sheffield Hallam University, UK)
Chapter 11. Addressing the Reader and/or Character in Gamebooks: Ryan North’s To Be or Not to Be and Romeo and/or Juliet
Baharak Darougari (University of Strasbourg, France)
Chapter 12. "Now, normally, I wouldn’t be telling you this and you, I’m sure, would be happier if I wasn’t." The Modern-Day Storyteller in Roddy Doyle’s Charlie Savage (2019)
Léa Boichard (University Savoie Mont Blanc, France)
Kala Pani Crossings. Revisiting 19th Century Migrations from India’s Perspective
Edited by Ashutosh Bhardwaj & Judith Misrahi-Barak
When used in India, the term Kala pani refers to the cellular jail in Port Blair, where the British colonisers sent a select category of freedom fighters. In the diaspora it refers to the transoceanic migration of indentured labour from India to plantation colonies across the globe from the mid-19th century onwards.
This volume discusses the legacies of indenture in the Caribbean, Reunion, Mauritius, and Fiji, and how they still imbue our present. More importantly, it draws attention to India and raises new questions: doesn’t one need, at some stage, to wonder why this forgotten chapter of Indian history needs to be retrieved? How is it that this history is better known outside India than in India itself? What are the advantages of shining a torch onto a history that was made invisible? Why have the tribulations of the old diaspora been swept under the carpet at a time when the successes of the new diaspora have been foregrounded? What do we stand to gain from resurrecting these histories in the early 21st century and from shifting our perspectives?
A key volume on Indian diaspora, modern history, indentured labour, and the legacy of indentureship, this co-edited collection of essays examines these questions largely through the frame of important works of literature and cinema, folk songs, and oral tales, making it an artistic enquiry of the past and of the present. It will be of great interest to scholars and researchers of world history, especially labour history, literature, postcolonial studies, cultural studies, diaspora studies, sociology and social anthropology, Indian Ocean studies, and South Asian studies.
The Stylistics of ‘You’. Second-Person Pronoun and Its Pragmatic Effects.
Sandrine Sorlin, Université Paul Valéry, Montpellier
This book takes 'you', the reader, on board an interdisciplinary journey across genre, time and medium with the second-person pronoun. It offers a model of the various pragmatic functions and effects of 'you' according to different variables and linguistic parameters, cutting across a wide range of genres (ads, political slogans, tweets, literary genres etc.), and bringing together print and digital texts under the same theoretical banner. Drawing on recent research into intersubjectivity in neuropsychology and socio-cognition, it delves into the relational and ethical processing at work in the reading of a second-person pronoun narrative. When 'you' takes on its more traditional deictic function of address, the author-reader channel can be opened in different ways, which is explored in examples taken from Fielding, Brontë, Orwell, Kincaid, Grimsley, Royle, Adichie, Bartlett, Auster, and even Spacey's 'creepy' 2018 YouTube video, ultimately foregrounding continuities and contrasts in the positioning of the audience.
https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/stylistics-of-you/F9D12425977993B841CAA2C4E775F3CB
