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Efi Pouliasi and Marianna Papageorgopoulou
The present study first draws on Sharmad Hashan (2019) who discusses leadership qualities that make a good leader and identifies them in Kolokotronis’ behavior as manifested in the Memoirs. The qualities of a good leader assume a politeness framework which establishes good rapport with interlocutors. The study then turns to impoliteness and uses Jonathan Culpeper’s (2010) model of conventionalized impoliteness formulae to identify instances of “impoliteness that remains on the surface, since it is understood that it is not intended to cause offence” (Culpeper 1996:352). Although considerable research has been devoted to the topic of im/politeness, much less attention has been paid to impoliteness in historical discourses. The paper is an attempt to broaden the interdisciplinary potential of im/politeness.
