Linda Gennies

List of John Benjamins publications for which Linda Gennies plays a role.

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Gennies, Linda 2023 German and Romance civility in contact: Retracing Early Modern European dynamics of polite address through historical foreign language manuals Politeness in and across Historical Europe, Paternoster, Annick, Gudrun Held and Dániel Z. Kádár (eds.), pp. 86–104 | Article
In this paper, I argue for a systematic study of the role that language contact has played in the development of German, French, Italian and Spanish address systems. While the current state of research clearly points to contact-induced changes in Early Modern European polite address, some… read more