Politeness in early Ptolemaic papyri: a frame-based approach

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 expressive features that make them distinct frames interaction. Deviances from frame petition within corpus are then taken into account evaluated impoliteness or rudeness.