(Im)politeness in Ancient Egypt : Norms, Wit, and Rudeness in Texts from Pharaonic Times through Late Antiquity /

(Im)politeness in Ancient Egypt is the first book-length study of (im)politeness in ancient Egyptian texts. Leading experts in their respective corpora examine a range of textual sources spanning approximately 2,000 years, using the latest frameworks for analyzing language in usage. This edited volu...

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Other Authors: Almansa-Villatoro, Maria Victoria (Editor), Motte, Aurore (Editor)

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Published: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2026.

Series: Language and Linguistics E-Books Online, Collection 2025.
Studies in Pragmatics ; 27.

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505 0 |t Preface -- List of Figures and Tables -- Notes on Contributors and Editors -- Ancient Egyptian Politeness throughout the Ages -- Approaches, Questions, and Results -- M. Victoria Almansa-Villatoro and Aurore Motte -- 1 The Study of Politeness in Ancient Languages-Methodological Notes -- Dániel Z. Kádár and Juliane House -- 2 J.nḏ-ḥr.k "Protect your face!": Addressing Politeness in the Pyramid Texts -- Brendan Hainline -- 3 Solidarity Politeness in Old Kingdom Speech Captions -- Aurore Motte -- 4 Ritual, (Im‑)politeness, and Social Order in the Old Kingdom and First Intermediate Period Letters to the Dead in Comparison with Letters to the Living -- M. Victoria Almansa-Villatoro -- 5 Phraseology and Motivation in Heqanakht's Letters -- James P. Allen -- 6 (Im)polite Behaviors in Ancient Egyptian Fictional Stories -- Nikolaos Lazaridis -- 7 Exploring Third-Party (Im)politeness in the Late Ramesside Letters -- Kim Ridealgh -- 8 (Im)politeness, Irony and Hierarchical Status: Pragmatic Anchorage of the Ancient Egyptian Fictional Narrative -- Gaëlle Chantrain -- 9 L'impolitesse comme source de divertissement et d'éducation: l'exemple de la Lettre satirique -- Nathalie Sojic -- 10 Appearance and Reality in Setne's Dialogue with "Pharaoh" in First Setne 5.31-35 -- Joseph Cross -- 11 Politeness and Impoliteness in Coptic Documents: The Correspondence of the Monk Frange in 8th Century Thebes -- Jennifer Cromwell and Alain Delattre -- Index. 
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