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Politeness in and across Historical Europe
Edited by Annick Paternoster, Gudrun Held and Dániel Z. Kádár
[Journal of Historical Pragmatics 24:1] 2023
► pp. 1–15

Introduction

Politeness in and across Historical Europe

| Dalian University of Foreign Languages | Hungarian Research Centre for Linguistics
| University of Salzburg
| University of Lugano
Article outline
  • 1.Introduction
  • 2.Areas of interest
    • 2.1Historicity
    • 2.2Morality and language use
    • 2.3Contrastive and intercultural scope
    • 2.4Ritual
    • 2.5Conceptual issues surrounding “politeness”
  • 3.Contents
  • References
Published online: 16 March 2023
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