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Politeness in the history of English : from the Middle Ages to the present day /

"The British have a reputation for being excessively polite. A caricature version of this is available as a picture postcard on which two pictures illustrate allegedly incorrect and correct polite behaviour in a British context (Ford & Legon 2003; see also Wierzbicka 2006: 31). In the pictu...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Jucker, Andreas H. (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2020.
Subjects:
Politeness (Linguistics)
English language > Semantics.
English lanugage > History.
History.

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