Publications
Publication details [#61823]
Dickey, Eleanor. 2016. Politeness in ancient Rome: Can it help us evaluate modern politeness theories? Journal of Politeness Research 12 (2) : 197–220.
Publication type
Article in journal
Publication language
English
Keywords
Language as a subject
Person as a subject
Place, Publisher
De Gruyter
Journal WWW
Annotation
It is argued that the use of multiple politeness models (Terkourafi, Hall, Brown and Levinson, Watts) warrants the best grasp of the 661 polite requests found in a Ciceronian letter corpus.