This paper examines impoliteness in ancient Greek, taking into account the linguistic structure of silencers and dismissals, their communicative functions gender distribution three comedies by Aristophanes. Silencers dismissals serve a number different goals: reinforcing disagreement, creating comic effect, advancing plot. We will analyse possibilities that speakers have at disposal to express ...

This paper deals with the expression of linguistic politeness in early Hellenistic documentary papyri, through a data-oriented approach exploiting notion “frame” (cf. Terkourafi 2001), which accounts for terms regular correlations between forms and contexts. The study focuses on subset epistolary types, i.e., ordinary business letters, recommendations petitions, considering those situational ex...