This paper deals with the expression of linguistic politeness in early Hellenistic documentary papyrus letters, through a data-oriented approach exploiting the notion of “frame” (cf. terkourafi 2001), which accounts for ...

This work proposes, first, an approach to the agonal character of electoral debates, and then analyses the nature of the acts of (im)politeness that appear in them. From there, it presents a triangular theoretical-methodological ...

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In the nineteenth century, Portugal undertook a public works programme, spearheaded by railways, seeking the modernisation of the country. In this paper, I use the approach of technopolitics to study how the implementation ...

This paper aims to provide an answer to James Woodward’s article “Flagpoles anyone? Causal and explanatory asymmetries”. It will be conjectured that, when causal directionality depends on the experimental design, it is ...

This paper examines impoliteness in ancient Greek, taking into account the linguistic structure of silencers and dismissals, Their communicative functions and their gender distribution in three comedies by aristophanes. ...

Does smoke cause fire or does fire cause smoke? James Woodward’s “Flagpoles anyone? Causal and explanatory asymmetries” argues that various statistical independence relations not only help us to uncover the directions of ...

This paper is an attempt to present the state of the art in Basque historical phonology. The accomplishments and limitations of different methodologies are evaluated. These methodologies include the application of the ...