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 language | English |
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Title of host publication | Lemmata Linguistica Latina Vol. 2: Clause and Discourse |
Editors | L van Gils, C Kroon, R. Risselada |
Pages | 431-447 |
Number of pages | 17 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - 2019 |
Keywords
- Commedia Latina
- Pragmatica storica
- im/politeness