Fokelien Kootstra-Ford

List of John Benjamins publications in which Fokelien Kootstra-Ford is involved.

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Kootstra-Ford, Fokelien 2026 “Hurry to send it, my lord, my love”: Politeness strategies in eight Arabic private letters of request from the ninth century ad How to Ask (Im)politely: Letters from Europe, the Mediterranean and the Middle East from the ninth to the nineteenth century, Rutten, Gijsbert and Petra Sijpesteijn (eds.), pp. 41–66 | Article

This article investigates politeness strategies in eight ninth-century Arabic private letters of request from the Fayyoum, in Egypt. The large corpus of Arabic letters written on papyrus that is preserved and edited so far, forms a rich resource for those interested in pragmatics. While… read more