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POLITENESS AS REFLECTED IN SOME OF THE 19TH AND 20TH CENTURY ENGLISH NOVELS. A PRAGMALINGUISTIC APPROACH IN A POSTMODERN PERSPECTIVE, autor Vasilica Mleșniță

The purpose of this paper is to highlight the differences in use and interpretation of “please”, “thank you”, frankness, and politeness, and an inventory of expressive politeness1 would not bring meaningful information about social interaction in the 19th and 20thcentury. Starting from the utterance level with expressives, commissives, and impositives, we explore [...]