METACOMMUNICATIVE ASPECTS OF IM/POLITENESSIN MID-19TH CENTURY ROMANIAN PRINCIPALITIES

The article investigates the im/politeness lexicon in mid - nineteenth century Romanian, based on the analysis of a literary corpus (belonging to the Forty-Eighter writers). The observations try to account for the diachro nic variability of im/politeness appraisal in the Romanian Principalities. The results based on the mid - nineteenth century corpus are compared with those of our previous studies on im/politeness in the Romanian princely courts (seventeenth-early eighteenth century chronicles corpus). The article focuses on the relationships between im/politeness and emotion, intentionality, self image, tracing the marks of a politeness continuum