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This paper presents an overview of the theoretical background on over- and under-politeness as well as on conventionalised irony. It goes on to explore these phenomena in relation to a collection of suppliant scenes by Euripides, since they are easy to compare in terms of the narrative pattern and the role performed by the characters. Along with other examples from the sample, this article attempts to propose that the idioms οὐκ οἶδ' ἐγώ 'I am not aware that', ὡς ἔοικε 'it seems' and βούλῃ (+ subj. / acI); 'do you want...?', εἰ βούλῃ 'if you want' are likely cases of conventionalised overpoliteness. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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The study of (im)politeness as a manifestation of the pragmatic communicative behavior in the various languages as well as in Spanish, has seen an interesting growth in the last decade, to the extent that there is already an abundant literature addressing their research in the linguistic, pragmatic aspects, etc. All these studies have been approached from different points of view the analysis of (im)politeness, but among the analytical parameters have not considered prosody as a relevant pragmatic factor in communication. With this work we aim at drawing the attention of the specialist on the need to take into account this factor, which in many cases plays a crucial role in the interpretation of the (im)polite tone of the linguistic message. Also reviewed, as a state of affairs, some of the most recent works that, takie the Spanish as a language of reference, have considered these facts either directly or indirectly. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article analyzes how the newspapers use the language to express the politeness in relation to the readers and with the protagonists of the information. One is how the ambiguity of the informative headings is looked for as it forms implicit of opinion, in texts that only allow the transmission of facts. On the other hand, the journalist chooses verbal forms that offer a discourteous image of the agent, putting in front the image of hierarchy to the one of the courtesy. Special relevance in the public image of the protagonists has the subjective use of the nouns and adjectives. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]