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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Cambridge ; New York :
Cambridge University Press,
2020.
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Table of Contents:
- Exploring politeness in the history of English
- Research methods and data problems
- Medieval Britain
- Terms of address in Middle English
- Renaissance and Early Modern England
- Terms of address in Early Modern English
- The eighteenth century: the age of politeness
- The eighteenth century: Educational literature
- The rise (and fall) of non-imposition politeness
- Conclusion: Politeness, manners and dissimulation.