“Meaning you have been known to act rashly” : How Molly Weasley
negotiates her identity as a moral authority in conflicts in
the Harry Potter series

D 2020

“Meaning you have been known to act rashly” : How Molly Weasley negotiates her identity as a moral authority in conflicts in the Harry Potter series

PELCLOVÁ, Jana

Basic information

Original name

“Meaning you have been known to act rashly” : How Molly Weasley negotiates her identity as a moral authority in conflicts in the Harry Potter series

Authors

PELCLOVÁ, Jana (203 Czech Republic, guarantor, belonging to the institution)

Edition

Amsterdam, Manners, Norms and Transgressions in the History of English : Literary and linguistic approaches, p. 272-293, 22 pp. 2020

Publisher

John Benjamins

Other information

Language

English

Type of outcome

Stať ve sborníku

Field of Study

60203 Linguistics

Country of publisher

Netherlands

Confidentiality degree

není předmětem státního či obchodního tajemství

Publication form

printed version "print"

References:

URL

RIV identification code

RIV/00216224:14210/20:00116259

Organization unit

Faculty of Arts

ISBN

978-90-272-0746-3

DOI

http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/pbns.312.12pel

Keywords in English

Harry Potter; moral authority; Molly Weasley; manners; impoliteness; implicational impoliteness; conventionalised impoliteness

Abstract

V originále

Molly Weasley, a mother character in J. K. Rowling’s Harry Potter series, represents a moral authority whose system of moral values and principles that governs her family is also recognised and highly appreciated by other characters in the books and by the readers. However, even Molly Weasley becomes engaged in conflictual situations in which she transgresses her morality and chooses impoliteness to control her interlocutor’s inappropriate behaviour. Such situations enable her to negotiate her identity as a moral authority and to be perceived as a complex character. Drawing upon Culpeper’s (2011) theoretical framework of impoliteness, the objective of the paper is to study how Molly Weasley employs conventionalised and implicational impoliteness in her direct speeches, which functions her impolite formulas have, and how both the triggers and functions are determined by her relation with her interlocutor.

Links

MUNI/FR/0992/2017, interní kód MU

Name: Vytvoření a realizace kurzu „Reading Harry Potter: Linguistic, Literary and Cultural Analyses“

Investor: Masaryk University

Citovat

PELCLOVÁ, Jana. “Meaning you have been known to act rashly” : How Molly Weasley negotiates her identity as a moral authority in conflicts in the Harry Potter series. In Jucker, Andreas H.; Taavitsainen, Irma. Manners, Norms and Transgressions in the History of English : Literary and linguistic approaches. Amsterdam: John Benjamins, 2020, p. 272-293. ISBN 978-90-272-0746-3. Available from: https://dx.doi.org/10.1075/pbns.312.12pel.

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PELCLOVÁ, Jana. “Meaning you have been known to act rashly” : How Molly Weasley negotiates her identity as a moral authority in conflicts in the Harry Potter series. In Jucker, Andreas H.; Taavitsainen, Irma. \textit{Manners, Norms and Transgressions in the History of English : Literary and linguistic approaches}. Amsterdam: John Benjamins, 2020, p.~272-293. ISBN~978-90-272-0746-3. Available from: https://dx.doi.org/10.1075/pbns.312.12pel.

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