Petra Sijpesteijn

List of John Benjamins publications in which Petra Sijpesteijn is involved.

Articles

Rutten, Gijsbert, Petra Sijpesteijn and Marina Terkourafi 2026 How to ask (im)politely: Letters from Europe, the Mediterranean and the Middle East from the ninth to the nineteenth century Journal of Historical Pragmatics: Online-First Articles | Introduction
Sijpesteijn, Petra  Wanting or asking? Polite and impolite requests in Arabic papyrus letters Journal of Historical Pragmatics: Online-First Articles | Article
Requests are a type of directive speech act in which the speaker aims to get someone to do something that that person might not have done without being asked. In the case of Arabic papyri, the scholarly attention requests have received has been limited mainly to petitions addressed to government… read more
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