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Publication details [#38962]

Nevala, Minna. 2004. Accessing politeness axes: forms of address and terms of reference in early English correspondence. Journal of Pragmatics 36 (12) : 2125–2160.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

address | politeness | pragmatics | reference

Language as a subject

English, Early-modern

Place, Publisher

Elsevier

Journal WWW

www.sciencedirect.com/web-editions

Annotation

This paper on socio-pragmatic aspects of forms of address and reference in early English correspondence, focuses on general trends and relates them to Brown and Levinson’s contemporary politeness theory.