Add to ORKGLetter-writing manuals and the evolution of requests markers in the eighteenth century In eighteenth century England the middle classes were looking for assistance guides to help them to move upwards in society. Among those help books we find letter-writing manuals, a very popular text-type in the Late Modern English period, which provided information on how to write letters on any occasion. It is also in the eighteenth century when we observe the beginning of the replacement of pray by please as the default courtesy marker in requests, which would not be fully accomplished until the beginning of the twentieth century. The epistolary genre in general is a good source for the analysis of requests due to the interactive character of letters. ...
In the history of English, the Late Modern period offers a chance to observe rapid developments in ...
In the history of English, the Late Modern period offers a chance to observe rapid developments in ...
In recent years there has been a renewed interest in correspondence both as a literary genre and as ...
In eighteenth century England the middle classes were looking for assistance guides to help them to ...
In this contribution I investigate linguistic strategies of making requests employed in a corpus of ...
[Abstract] The nineteenth century witnesses the competition between courtesy markers in requests, wi...
In this study I analyse linguistic solutions employed to encode prescriptive norms of appropriate bu...
The thesis is a study of nineteen late medieval letters of petition and request from the Corpus of M...
The thesis is a study of nineteen late medieval letters of petition and request from the Corpus of M...
International audienceHow did people learn to write letters in the eighteenth century? Among other b...
International audienceHow did people learn to write letters in the eighteenth century? Among other b...
International audienceHow did people learn to write letters in the eighteenth century? Among other b...
En la segunda mitad del siglo XVIII el marcador de cortesía "pray" era el marcador pragmático más ha...
This article suggests the significance of letters as texts in the long 18th century. It provides a s...
This article suggests the significance of letters as texts in the long 18th century. It provides a s...
In the history of English, the Late Modern period offers a chance to observe rapid developments in ...
In the history of English, the Late Modern period offers a chance to observe rapid developments in ...
In recent years there has been a renewed interest in correspondence both as a literary genre and as ...
In eighteenth century England the middle classes were looking for assistance guides to help them to ...
In this contribution I investigate linguistic strategies of making requests employed in a corpus of ...
[Abstract] The nineteenth century witnesses the competition between courtesy markers in requests, wi...
In this study I analyse linguistic solutions employed to encode prescriptive norms of appropriate bu...
The thesis is a study of nineteen late medieval letters of petition and request from the Corpus of M...
The thesis is a study of nineteen late medieval letters of petition and request from the Corpus of M...
International audienceHow did people learn to write letters in the eighteenth century? Among other b...
International audienceHow did people learn to write letters in the eighteenth century? Among other b...
International audienceHow did people learn to write letters in the eighteenth century? Among other b...
En la segunda mitad del siglo XVIII el marcador de cortesía "pray" era el marcador pragmático más ha...
This article suggests the significance of letters as texts in the long 18th century. It provides a s...
This article suggests the significance of letters as texts in the long 18th century. It provides a s...
In the history of English, the Late Modern period offers a chance to observe rapid developments in ...
In the history of English, the Late Modern period offers a chance to observe rapid developments in ...
In recent years there has been a renewed interest in correspondence both as a literary genre and as ...