Il vestito forma la persona – “clothes make the man”: Fashion morality in Italian nineteenth-century conduct books
Using a corpus of 40 influential conduct books published in Italy in the long nineteenth century, we apply current insights in the role of values for the emergence and maintenance of conventions developed within the pragmatics of politeness to the prescriptive discourse on fashion, because in these...
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Language: | deu |
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Seismo Verlag
2019-05-01
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Series: | Studies in Communication Sciences |
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