How gratitude evolved from thinking positively about someone to a verbal expression of thanks, by FridlandValerie
also meant 'thought,’ as it is descended from the ancient Indo-European word’s shift from thinking to thanking seems to have come from the type of thinking involved: Having favorable thoughts or feelings toward someone, which developed into gratitude.About whom did Old English speakers tend to have these favorable thoughts? Most often, about God. Some of the earliest uses of the word in this manner are from gospels and religious works.
We find evidence from literature during this period that paying heed to one’s place in that social order – by using routinized address terms for one’s kin, lord or nobles, for instance – was important, but worrying about coming off as rude less so. Old English society functioned not because people did what they liked or flattered each other, but because people did as they must and as they believed God’s will commanded.In a word, society.
In the Elizabethan period, thanking is easily located in literary sources from Marlowe to Jonson to Shakespeare, though generally not in the shortened form preferred today , but instead in full sentential glory:. During this period, thanking often occurred with displays of deference that alluded to social rank, such as the use of titles .
politeness, conventional indirect requests and the rise of the individual self. Journal of Historical Pragmatics, 12 . pp. 49-81."thank, n.". OED Online. September 2022. Oxford University Press.
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