Politeness [ Taste & Manners / Education ]
… sides on a single sheet of paper. From the website: The Open Anthology of Literature in English. Public domain via Wikimedia Commons Abstract In the eighteenth century, the term ‘politeness’ became a powerful, if controverted, tool for … institutions, noted by contemporaries, was the co-presence of diverse strangers. The norms of politeness were aimed at mediating differences, whether those of gender, social level, religion, politics, or geographical origin, to name a few. …
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