Servant or patron? Jacob Tonson and the language of deference and respect

Language Sciences

Volumn 24, Issue 3-4, 2002, Pages 247-260

  Fitzmaurice, Susan ^a  

^a NORTHERN ARIZONA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Discourse analysis; Early Modern English; English modals; Epistemic and deontic modality; Politeness; Pragmatics

Indexed keywords

EID: 22944467461     PISSN: 03880001     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0388-0001(01)00032-8     Document Type: Article

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