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Semantic corpus trawling: Expressions of “courtesy” and “politeness” in the Helsinki Corpus

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Jucker, A. H., Taavitsainen, I., & Schneider, G. (2012). Semantic corpus trawling: Expressions of “courtesy” and “politeness” in the Helsinki Corpus. In C. Suhr & I. Taavitsainen (Eds.), Developing Corpus Methodology for Historical Pragmatics (No. 11; Issue 11, pp. 1–1). Research Unit for Variation, Contacts and Change in English. http://www.helsinki.fi/varieng/journal/volumes/11/jucker_taavitsainen_schneider/

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This article studies politeness related terminology in the history of English with the aim of shedding some new light on the long diachrony of the folk notion of “politeness”, and at the same time we assess the usefulness of the research method which we call “metacommunicative expression analysis”. Metacommunicative expressions are words and phrases used to talk about aspects of communication, or a particular type of behaviour, such as “polite” or “impolite”. The semantic field of expressions that have been used in the history of Engl

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  • Suhr, Carla
  • Taavitsainen, Irma

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Developing Corpus Methodology for Historical Pragmatics

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Helsinki

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Studies in Variation, Contacts and Change in English

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Jucker, A. H., Taavitsainen, I., & Schneider, G. (2012). Semantic corpus trawling: Expressions of “courtesy” and “politeness” in the Helsinki Corpus. In C. Suhr & I. Taavitsainen (Eds.), Developing Corpus Methodology for Historical Pragmatics (No. 11; Issue 11, pp. 1–1). Research Unit for Variation, Contacts and Change in English. http://www.helsinki.fi/varieng/journal/volumes/11/jucker_taavitsainen_schneider/

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