Wilt Thou Be Lord of all the World? Modals and Persuasion in Shakespeare
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Keywords

persuasion
modal
Shakespeare
speech act
historical pragmatics

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Nakayasu, M. (2014). Wilt Thou Be Lord of all the World? Modals and Persuasion in Shakespeare. Studia Anglica Posnaniensia, 49(1), 5–30. https://doi.org/10.2478/stap-2014-0001

Abstract

This research thus clarifies how effectively speakers attempted to persuade others in interactions, shedding light on communication mechanisms in the past.

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