Understanding Historical (Im)Politeness
：Relational linguistic practice over time and across cultures
( Benjamins Current Topics )
Publication subTitle ：Relational linguistic practice over time and across cultures
Publication series ： Benjamins Current Topics
Author： Marcel Bax Dániel Z. Kádár
Publisher： John Benjamins Publishing Company
Publication year： 2012
E-ISBN: 9789027275110
P-ISBN(Paperback): 9789027202604
Subject： H0 Linguistics
Language： ENG
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Description
For once a collection of essays fulfills the promise of its title! Collectively, the essays edited by Bax and Kádár make a major contribution to the understanding of a topic in which both linguists and historians have been showing increasing interest in the last few years. Ranging from prehistory to our own time and from England to China, the contributors go beyond the classic study of politeness by Brown and Levinson in their concern with both cultural variation and cultural change.