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trustworthiness and sincerity in diplomatic speech

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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2020) 50 (3): 609–631.
Published: 01 September 2020
... in early modern diplomacy, the essay argues for diplomatic parrhesia as a matter of trustworthiness rather than sincerity. Shakespeare introduces a new perspective on the ambassador’s speech and its function and on the capacity of authorities to hear truthful speech, while reasserting the political...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2020) 50 (3): 659–670.
Published: 01 September 2020
... conventions. As she notes, each diplomatic encounter is a richly nuanced, semiotically charged act of communicative exchange between indi- vidual agents in specific circumstances. Everything depended on speeches and gestures, their intended meanings, and potentially divergent interpreta- tions. Sokolov s...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2020) 50 (3): 477–492.
Published: 01 September 2020
... discussion is concerned with the concept of parrhesia in diplomatic expression, or rather, diplomatic speech. Rivère de Carles frames her essay with competing characterizations of the ambassador made by the English diplomat Sir Henry Wotton: his oft-quoted aphorism that an ambassador is an honest man sent...