Women’s Politeness Rights and Duties on the Basis of Savoir-Vivre Textbooks from 20th and 21st Century Cover Image

Grzecznościowe prawa i obowiązki kobiet w świetle podręczniko´w savoir-vivre’u XX i XXI wieku
Women’s Politeness Rights and Duties on the Basis of Savoir-Vivre Textbooks from 20th and 21st Century

Author(s): Małgorzata Marcjanik
Subject(s): Language and Literature Studies
Published by: Wydział Polonistyki Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego
Keywords: etykieta językowa; językowy savoir-vivre; gender; wiek XX; zmiana obyczajowa; courtesy norms/standards; linguistic savoir-vivre; gender; 20th century; changes in customs

Summary/Abstract: The article concerns women’s politeness rights and duties. They are discussed on the basis of savoir-vivre textbooks published in Poland after the First and Second World War and after 1989. The subject of analysis is first of all the role of woman as a wife and as an employee. The paper focuses on social requirements given to women in three different periods of customs’ development.

  • Issue Year: 2007
  • Issue No: 53
  • Page Range: 373-378
  • Page Count: 6
  • Language: Polish
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