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

(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)

Format: eBook

Language: English

Published: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2026.

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

Subjects:

Ancient Near East and Egypt.
Egyptology.
Historical and Comparative Linguistics & Linguistic Typology.
Languages and Linguistics.
Pragmatics & Discourse Analysis.
Sociolinguistics.

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Call Number: R930

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Table of Contents:
  • 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.