V. 19 (2016)
Articoli

La <em>lengua honesta</em> como problema: un aspecto de la interdicción lingüística en la España del siglo XVI (con una <em>cola</em> cervantina)

Selena Simonatti
Biografia

Parole chiave

  • cacemphaton,
  • proprietas,
  • Linguistic Politeness,
  • Social History of Spanish

Abstract

The article explores the strategies of the neutralization of potentially “dishonest” language, in the framework of the normative positions of some manuals of savoir vivre. It examines also the presence of this aspect in some Spanish texts of the time (16th and 17th centuries).