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Historical politeness

Published online: 3 October 2022
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https://doi.org/10.1075/hop.m2.his3
Article outline
  • 1.Introduction
    • 1.1Historical politeness: Diachronic relativity
    • 1.2Diachronic relativity and historical politeness research
    • 1.3Structure and data
  • 2.Previous research
  • 3.Key concepts
    • 3.1Comparability and representation
    • 3.2Transformation and continuity
    • 3.3Historical multimodality
  • 4.Discussion
  • Acknowledgments
  • Notes
  • References
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