Politeness and modal meaning in the construction of humiliative discourse in an early eighteenth-century network of patron-client relationships

English Language and Linguistics

Volumn 6, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 239-265

  Fitzmaurice, Susan ^a  

^a NORTHERN ARIZONA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 34248746830     PISSN: 13606743     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S1360674302000229     Document Type: Article

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