The courtesy markers "Pray" and "Please" in the late eighteenth century: evidence from the "Corpus of Late Eighteenth-century Prose"

• Autores: Fátima Faya Cerqueiro
• Localización: Proceedings of the 30th International AEDEAN Conference: [electronic resource] / coord. por María Losada Friend, Pilar Ron Vaz, Sonia Hernández Santano, Jorge Casanova García, 2007, ISBN 978-84-96826-31-1
• Idioma: inglés
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  • This paper depicts the competition of the courtesy markers pray and please in the late eighteenth century, paying special attention to the origin of the courtesy marker please and to the changes taking place in the preference of the courtesy marker used in requests. I have used an epistolary collection, the "Corpus of late Eighteenth-century Prose", which compiles private letters from 1761-1790.