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Journal of Historical Pragmatics

Online-first articles

The following articles have been published online-first, and have not yet been published in an issue.

10 February 2026

Forms of address as politic behaviour in seventeenth-century Dutch private and business letters

Gijsbert Rutten and Marijke J. van der Wal | 21 pp.

6 February 2026

“Pray, Sir, Proceed” The politeness of requests in epistolary novels of the long eighteenth century

Andreas H. Jucker | 25 pp.

5 February 2026

How to ask (im)politely: Letters from Europe, the Mediterranean and the Middle East from the ninth to the nineteenth century

Gijsbert Rutten, Petra Sijpesteijn and Marina Terkourafi | 10 pp.

3 February 2026

Never ask, never apologise: Politeness strategies in Italian merchant letters between London, Milan, Florence, 1397–1401

Josh Brown | 26 pp.