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Politeness in Shakespeare.

Penelope Brown and Stephen Levinson have proposed that power (P), distance (D), and the ranked extremity (R) of a face-threatening act are the universal determinants of politeness levels in dyadic discourse. This claim is tested here for Shakespeare's use of Early Modern English in Much Ado abo...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Bouchara, Abdelaziz
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Diplomica Verlag, 2009.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Sumario:Penelope Brown and Stephen Levinson have proposed that power (P), distance (D), and the ranked extremity (R) of a face-threatening act are the universal determinants of politeness levels in dyadic discourse. This claim is tested here for Shakespeare's use of Early Modern English in Much Ado about Nothing, Measure for Measure, The Taming of the Shrew, and Twelfth Night. The comedies are used because: (1) dramatic texts provide the best information on colloquial speech of the period; (2) the psychological soliloquies in the comedies provide the access to inner life that is necessary for a proper.
Descripción Física:1 online resource (120 pages)
ISBN:9783836627535
3836627531