Politeness and politics in Cicero's letters / Jon Hall.

This book presents a fresh examination of the letters exchanged between Cicero and correspondents, such as Pompey, Julius Caesar and Mark Antony during the final turbulent decades of the Roman Republic. Drawing upon sociolinguistic theories of politeness, it argues that formal relationships between...

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Main Author: Hall, Jon (Jon C. R.), 1961-
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Oxford ; New York : Oxford Univ. Press, ©2009.
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