This edited collection investigates historical linguistic politeness and impoliteness. Although some research has been undertaken uniting politeness and histori

Exploring a largely uncharted territory of cultural history and linguistic ethnography, Understanding Historical (Im)Politeness offers in-depth analyses and per

Exploring a largely uncharted territory of cultural history and linguistic ethnography, Understanding Historical (Im)Politeness offers in-depth analyses and per

From the Middle Ages up to the present day, this book traces politeness in the history of the English language.

This study concerns the nature of impoliteness in face-to-face spoken interaction. For more than three decades many pragmatic and sociolinguistic studies of int