37.2139, TOC: Journal of Historical Pragmatics 27 / 1 (2026)

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Date: 18-Jun-2026
From: Eric Burgstede [eric at benjamins.nl]
Subject: Journal of Historical Pragmatics Vol. 27, No. 1 (2026)


Publisher: John Benjamins
                        http://www.benjamins.com/

Journal Title: Journal of Historical Pragmatics
Volume Number: 27
Issue Number: 1
Issue Date: 20260618

Subtitle: Special Issue: How to Ask (Im)politely Letters from Europe,
the Mediterranean and the Middle East from the ninth to the nineteenth
century

Main Text:

2026.  v, 138 pp.
Table of Contents
Introduction
How to ask (im)politely: Letters from Europe, the Mediterranean and
the Middle East from the ninth to the nineteenth century
Gijsbert Rutten, Petra M. Sijpesteijn & Marina Terkourafi | pp. 1–10
Articles
Wanting or asking? Polite and impolite requests in Arabic papyrus
letters
Petra M. Sijpesteijn | pp. 11–40
“Hurry to send it, my lord, my love”: Politeness strategies in eight
Arabic private letters of request from the ninth century ad
Fokelien Kootstra-Ford | pp. 41–66
Never ask, never apologise: Politeness strategies in Italian merchant
letters between London, Milan, Florence, 1397–1401
Josh Brown | pp. 67–92
Forms of address as politic behaviour in seventeenth-century Dutch
private and business letters
Gijsbert Rutten & Marijke van der Wal | pp. 93–113
“Pray, Sir, Proceed”: The politeness of requests in epistolary novels
of the long eighteenth century
Andreas H. Jucker | pp. 114–138

Linguistic Field(s): Historical Linguistics
                     Pragmatics




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