Publications

Publication details [#8746]

Sell, Roger D. 1985. Politeness in Chaucer: Suggestions towards a methodology for pragmatic stylistics. Studia Neophilologica 57 : 175–185.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

literary theory | politeness | stylistics | written language

Journal WWW

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Annotation

Literary pragmatics is defined as the study of the ways in which an interaction is brought about between writer and reader. It is used to approach matters of style, in particular politeness, in Chaucer.