Das Konzept der Höflichkeit in England und Deutschland im 18. Jahrhundert in den Werken von Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4. Graf von Chesterfield, und Adolph Freiherr von Knigge.

Abstract

Hiroyuki Takada’s (2002) paper on the concept of politeness in the eighteenth century according to lexeme descriptions in Johann Christoph Adelung’s Grammatisch-kritisches Wörterbuch der Hochdeutschen Mundart is here taken as the starting point for an investigation of different types of politeness in England and Germany in the eighteenth century. Recent research has confirmed the usefulness of distinguishing between two types of politeness, especially for the eighteenth century; one concerned primarily with the moral propriety of what Show more