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Publication details [#12124]

Watts, Richard J. 1999. Language and politeness in early eighteenth century Britain. Pragmatics 9 (1) : 5–20.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

ideology | politeness | social class

Person as a subject

Brown, P. | Levinson, S.

Place, Publisher

International Pragmatics Association

ISBN

1018-2101

Journal DOI

10.1075/prag

Annotation

A historical account of the link between politeness and language use as a marker of social class, an ideology also present in the Brown-Levinson politeness theory.