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{"title":"Happiness in Nineteenth-Century Ireland ed. by Mary Hatfield, and: The Emotional Economy of Holidaymaking: Health, Pleasure, and Class in Britain, 1870–1918 by Yaara Benger Alaluf (review)","authors":"Rob Boddice","doi":"10.2979/vic.00031","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2979/vic.00031","url":null,"abstract":"Reviewed by: Happiness in Nineteenth-Century Ireland ed. by Mary Hatfield, and: The Emotional Economy of Holidaymaking: Health, Pleasure, and Class in Britain, 1870–1918 by Yaara Benger Alaluf Rob Boddice (bio) Happiness in Nineteenth-Century Ireland, edited by Mary Hatfield; pp. vii + 240. Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, 2021, £95.00, $150.00. The Emotional Economy of Holidaymaking: Health, Pleasure, and Class in Britain, 1870–1918, by Yaara Benger Alaluf; pp. xi + 196. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2021, £65.00, $85.00. Happiness is political. Self-evident in the present, it should not be surprising to find it to be true in the past. But we should expect happiness to be framed differently and, by logical extension, experienced differently, depending on the where, when, and how. Thus, these two books, Happiness in Nineteenth-Century Ireland edited by Mary Hatfield and The Emotional Economy of Holidaymaking: Health, Pleasure, and Class in Britain, 1870–1918 by Yaara Benger Alaluf, explore different framings and experiences of happiness. Both, one might be forgiven for assuming, are suggestive of fun, felicity, joy, and jouissance. Yet they are, respectively, books framed by war, misery, poverty, and violence, and by anxiety, nervousness, and fatigue. They do not historicize happiness or pleasure so much [End Page 524] as they historically situate the perception of a dire need to pursue these things, or else contrive the conditions where such things might be possible. Happiness in nineteenth-century Ireland, it transpires, is defined by a variety of temporary reprieves from poverty and violence; holidaymaking in Britain, in roughly the same period, turns out to be a prescription for industrial fatigue, overpressure, and nervous illness. It is to the social and political mise-en-scène of suffering and misery in modernity, ultimately, that both books make their greatest contribution. Stating the terms of reference in any study of happiness or well-being is crucial. A timeless list of positive-sounding emotion words will not cut it, as demonstrated by a recent ill-fated data mining attempt by a team of psychologists published in Nature Human Behaviour in 2019. They found, at least according to the popular-media portrayal of their research, that the British were happiest in the Victorian period. The psychologists, however, did not consult any historians of the period in their project, much to the collective annoyance of Victorianists who expressed their chagrin at the study's findings on social media. The quest for happiness cannot be left to quantitative analysis of printed words, unless we are willing to abandon, all over again, the poor, the subjugated, and the politically and socially repressed, on British shores and under the flag of imperial domination. In the context of numerous wars, famine, mass migration (both to the city and to new countries), industrialization, un- or under-regulated working conditions, sanitation problems, and f","PeriodicalId":41498,"journal":{"name":"Neo-Victorian Studies","volume":"65 3","pages":"524-527"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147903251","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Le palimpseste collocationnel : mécanismes productifs de formation des collocations métaphoriques V + N","authors":"Cosimo De Giovanni","doi":"10.31261/neo.2020.32.12","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.31261/neo.2020.32.12","url":null,"abstract":"In this article we argue in favor of a useful model to explain the productive mechanisms of formation of verb + noun metaphorical collocations. We postulate that verbo-nominal collocations, relating to human activities and relating to the fields of techniques, crafts, art and manufactures constitute a model for the metaphorical collocations. We will apply our model to metaphorical collocations with the French verb forger. For the application of our model, a corpus analysis will be necessary.","PeriodicalId":41498,"journal":{"name":"Neo-Victorian Studies","volume":"16 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-12-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"81996280","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Pragmatèmes au pays de la prosodie","authors":"W. Banyś","doi":"10.31261/neo.2020.32.05","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.31261/neo.2020.32.05","url":null,"abstract":"The presented text will touch on the issue too often neglected in studies of pragmatemes, namely the role of prosody in determining what is a pragmateme and what is not. First, the analyses of prosody and of its role in the determination and functioning of various linguistic phenomena (informational structure of the sentence, presupposition, relative propositions) are reviewed, then the definitions of pragmatems by I. Mel’čuk and X. Blanco with S. Mejri are presented, to move on, at the end, to analyse the role of prosody in the determination of the pragmatematical or non-pragmatematical status of constructions through analyses of cases of pragmatemes that should not be qualified in this way without precise indications on prosody. The point is that even if mistakes are made in the spelling or transcription, the actual pronunciation of the constructions in a concrete enunciation situation must be suitable for the construction in question to function as a pragmateme. It is a suitable intonation which, with the appropriate context, makes construction a pragmateme — the intonation is thus truly (co-)generating the meaning of the construction — otherwise the construction would have its literal meaning. This finding also invites us to make a detailed study, from this point of view, of as many of the expressions qualified as pragmatems as possible, and to include the decisive prosodic information in dictionary entries of this type of expression.","PeriodicalId":41498,"journal":{"name":"Neo-Victorian Studies","volume":"7 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-12-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"87697089","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Le choix des structures syntaxiques peut-il avoir un effet manipulatoire sur l’auditoire ?","authors":"Alicja Hajok, L. Miladi","doi":"10.31261/neo.2020.32.06","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.31261/neo.2020.32.06","url":null,"abstract":"The starting point of this project is the fact that we are constantly “under the influence of someone else”. From an early age, our perception of reality is shaped by the environment (community) in which we live, i.e. by our parents, friends, teachers, but also by the so-called mass media. Opinion-forming is undoubtedly deliberately instrumentalised through the implementation of a strategy aimed at obtaining the approval of its receiver. The objective of this study is to discuss different types of linguistic manipulation. We will also propose an analysis of different types oflinguistic manipulation, in particular syntactic.","PeriodicalId":41498,"journal":{"name":"Neo-Victorian Studies","volume":"223 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-12-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"76986451","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Analyser les formules pragmatiques de la conversation : problèmes de méthodes dans une perspective lexicographique","authors":"F. Grossmann, Anna Krzyżanowska","doi":"10.31261/neo.2020.32.03","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.31261/neo.2020.32.03","url":null,"abstract":"Through some examples, the paper illustrates the lexicographic approach implemented in the Polonium PRAGMALEX project, which aims to provide a pragma-semantic description of conversational formulas in French with their equivalent in Polish and Italian, highlighting their pragmaticvalues. The sociolinguistic or cultural factors that determine their use in the discourse are also made more explicit.","PeriodicalId":41498,"journal":{"name":"Neo-Victorian Studies","volume":"9 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-12-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"84106740","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Composizione-univerbazione? Le oscillazioni di grafia nei produttivi composti italiani a schema (N) VN sul materiale linguistico tratto da La Gazzetta dello Sport negli anni 2016—2020","authors":"Anna Godzich","doi":"10.31261/neo.2020.32.17","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.31261/neo.2020.32.17","url":null,"abstract":"Word-formation and compounding in Italian present many interesting challenges (classification of compounds, its interpretation and types of semantic relationship that may hold between the compound’s elements). This article attempts to examine a different one — the orthography of one productive compounding pattern in present-day Italian, that is Verb + Noun compounds. Various accounts of Verb + Noun ortography are reviewed, with special focus on the status of hyphenated words. In light of this data, the author focuces also on the problem of inclusion of compounds as multi-word units by dictionaries. The aim of this research is to contrast theoretical prescriptions with some data samples of Italian (Noun) Verb + Noun compounds drawn from La Gazzetta dello Sport (2016—2020). With this analysis the author wants to examine more in detail whether the use reflects what Italian grammarians claim about the Verb + Noun compounds ortography rules, because in various researches conducted in this field that aspect has often been neglected.","PeriodicalId":41498,"journal":{"name":"Neo-Victorian Studies","volume":"19 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-12-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"78065468","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"“Ah non, je ne parle pas anglais moi. Je suis française !” Une contribution à la typologie des pragmatèmes","authors":"Ruth De Oliveira","doi":"10.31261/neo.2020.32.07","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.31261/neo.2020.32.07","url":null,"abstract":"This work presents and discusses the development of the hypothesis according to which clitic doubling (pronominal reduplication), as seen in the sentence “Je ne parle pas anglais moi. / I do not speak English [me]”, has the fundamental structural and pragmatic parameters of the pragmatem (R. D e O l i v e i r a, 2018). Structural, because it is a compositional construction but selected as a whole by the speaker to respond to a communication goal associated with a precise utterance situation (G. F l é c h o n et al., 2012); pragmatic, since this device is a means of acting on the interlocutive context, allowing the accomplishment of a certain number of specific acts (I. M e l’č u k, 2013). In this sense, we argue that, like the pragmatem, the devise called French clitic doubling simultaneously has the following three characteristics, it is (i) fixed, (ii) compositional, and (iii) associated with a specific utterance situation.","PeriodicalId":41498,"journal":{"name":"Neo-Victorian Studies","volume":"42 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-12-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"87050209","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Clichés and pragmatemes","authors":"I. Mel'cuk","doi":"10.31261/neo.2020.32.01","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.31261/neo.2020.32.01","url":null,"abstract":"In order to properly classify the phraseme (that is, a constrained, or non-free, expression) No parking, a universal typology of lexical phrasemes is proposed. It is based on the following two parameters:• The nature of constraints— Lexemic phrasemes: the expression is constrained with respect to freely constructed meaning.—  Semantic-lexemic phrasemes: the expression is constrained/non-constrained with respect to the meaning constrained by the conceptual representation.—  Pragmatemes: the expression is constrained with respect to pragmatic conditions, that is, to the extralinguistic situation of its use (in a letter, on a street sign, on a package of perishable food).• The compositionalityThe expression can/cannot be represented as regular “sum” of its components.As a result, we have, firstly, the following major classes of lexical phrasemes:1)  Non-compositional lexemic phrasemes: idioms (˹cold feet˺, ˹shoot the breeze˺)2)  Compositional lexemic phrasemes: collocations (rain heavily, pay a visit)3)  Non-compositional semantic-lexemic phrasemes: nominemes (Big Dipper, New South Wales)4)  Compositional semantic-lexemic phrasemes: clichés (See you tomorrow! | Absence makes the heart grow fonder.)For clichés, the least-studied class of phrasemes, a more detailed classification is proposed (as a function of the type of their denotation). Secondly, each phraseme (except a nomineme) and each lexemes can be pragmatically constrained, i.e. a pragmateme: ˹Fall out!˺ (idiom; a military command) | Take aim! (collocation; a military command) | Emphasis mine/added (cliché; in a printed text) | Rest! (lexeme; a military command).","PeriodicalId":41498,"journal":{"name":"Neo-Victorian Studies","volume":"30 4","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-12-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"72368738","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"La reduplicación léxica como mecanismo metalingüístico","authors":"Ewa Urbaniak","doi":"10.31261/neo.2020.32.20","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.31261/neo.2020.32.20","url":null,"abstract":"The aim of the present article is to analyse the metalinguistic function of the nominal reduplication in Spanish. The lexical reduplication is a mechanism that consists in repeating a lexical unit within one phrase. The study shows that the nominal reduplication presents metalinguistic functions that reveal the interest of the speakers in a number of semantic issues related to the linguistic categorization and the concept of prototype. What is more, the metalinguistic aspect of the reduplicative constructions play a crucial role in a variety of situations as it entails some intersubjective meanings that are of a great importance for the interaction.","PeriodicalId":41498,"journal":{"name":"Neo-Victorian Studies","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-12-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"88561642","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Ça roule ! — un pragmatème à décortiquer. Une étude contrastive franco-italienne","authors":"Ryszard Wylecioł, Karolina Adamczyk","doi":"10.31261/neo.2020.32.10","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.31261/neo.2020.32.10","url":null,"abstract":"The aim of this paper is to present, after a short introduction to what pragmateme, or pragmatic phraseologism, is and how we understand it as a fixed expressive phrase with affective and emotive load, the results of the Polonium project entitled “Pragmatemes in contrast: from linguistic modeling to lexicographic coding”. In particular, we want to divulgate information concerning analysis of the French pragmateme Ça roule ! and its Italian corresponding phrase A posto!. Furthermore, equivalents of both pragmatemes are also investigated. However, as we consider cognitive linguistics tools as those which may give greater response to what the meaning of pragmatemes is, we broaden the project results with analysis of the trajector-landmark relation and of conceptual metaphors, that are the basis of the imagery for the aforementioned linguistic elements. In this way, we may also try to discern similarities and discrepancies in how close but still different cultures depict the same scene in similar speech events.","PeriodicalId":41498,"journal":{"name":"Neo-Victorian Studies","volume":"231 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-12-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"74473900","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}