ESTHER'S STRATEGIES OF BECOMING AN.
The study of politeness has become a major topic of pragmatics and sociolinguistics. Although research into politeness strategies has been done in Classical Biblical Hebrew, very little work has focused exclusively on Late Biblical Hebrew. This paper discusses three such strategies, identifiable in...
| Published in: | Hebrew Studies Vol. 53; pp. 61 - 89 |
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National Association of Professors of Hebrew
2012
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