TY - JOUR T1 - Politeness and modal meaning in the construction of humiliative discourse in an early eighteenth-century network of patron–client relationships JO - English Language and Linguistics UR - https://doi.org/10.1017/s1360674302000229 PY - 2002/10/09 AU - Fitzmaurice S ED - DO - DOI: 10.1017/s1360674302000229 PB - Cambridge University Press (CUP) VL - 6 IS - 2 SP - 239 EP - 265 Y2 - 2025/11/25 ER -