Inside and out: Forms of address in seventeenth and eighteenth-century letters

Journal of Historical Pragmatics

Volumn 5, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 271-296

  Nevala, Minna ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

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EID: 34248714080     PISSN: 15665852     EISSN: 15699854     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1075/jhp.5.2.07nev     Document Type: Article

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