How to assess politeness in response to impoliteness: some examples from Latin comedy

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Abstract

The chapter focuses on impolite and overpolite expressions in confrontations, as two different but related linguistic resources displayed in conflict. It takes as a corpus the comedies of Plautus and Terence, and Donatus’ commentaries as source for metapragmatic comments.
Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationLemmata Linguistica Latina Vol. 2: Clause and Discourse
EditorsL van Gils, C Kroon, R. Risselada
Pages431-447
Number of pages17
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2019

Keywords

  • Commedia Latina
  • Pragmatica storica
  • im/politeness

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