TY - JOUR N2 - Polite talk – The paper aims to analyze the role that books of manners from different historical times assign to language in defining politeness. It also tries to find differences and similarities among them and to explain principles that books of manners share with theoretical models on politeness, notwithstanding the descriptive perspective of the first and the normative point of view of the latter. L1 - http://journals.pan.pl/Content/112010/PDF/KN%202-19%2021ALFONZETTI.pdf L2 - http://journals.pan.pl/Content/112010 PY - 2019 IS - No 2 EP - 304 DO - 10.24425/kn.2019.128403 KW - historical pragmatics KW - politeness KW - language behaviour KW - books of manners A1 - Alfonzetti, Giovanna PB - Wydział I Nauk Humanistycznych i Społecznych PAN i Uniwersytet Warszawski DA - 2019.06.06 T1 - Polite talk SP - 297 UR - http://journals.pan.pl/dlibra/publication/edition/112010 T2 - Kwartalnik Neofilologiczny ER -