In:Understanding Historical (Im)Politeness: Relational linguistic practice over time and across cultures
Edited by Marcel Bax and Dániel Z. Kádár
[Benjamins Current Topics 41] 2012
► pp. v–vi
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Published online: 7 November 2012
https://doi.org/10.1075/bct.41.toc
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Table of contents
Articles
The historical understanding of historical (im)politeness: Introduction
‘Face’ across historical cultures: A comparative study of Turkish and Chinese
Nineteenth-century English politeness: Negative politeness, conventional indirect requests and the rise of the individual self
“[T]his most unnecessary, unjust, and disgraceful war”: Attacks on the Madison Administration in Federalist newspapers during the War of 1812
A socio-cognitive approach to historical politeness
From good manners to facework: Politeness variations and constants in France, from the classic age to today
“Tumbled into the dirt”: Wit and incivility in early modern England
Positive and negative face as descriptive categories in the history of English
Insults, violence, and the meaning of lytegian in the Old English Battle of Maldon
Understanding Anglo-Saxon “politeness”: Directive constructions with ic wille / ic wolde
An evolutionary take on (im)politeness: Three broad developments in the marking out of socio-proxemic space
Notes on Contributors
Index283
