From Social Performance to Expressing the ‘True Self’: The Change in the Communicational Assumptions in Polish Letter-Writing Manuals from the Eighteenth and the Early Nineteenth Centuries in the Context of the Emergence of Modern Sincerity in the West
While the traditional model of verbal expression was founded on the premise that individuals should skilfully use conventions in order to achieve their goals, the modern approach, based on sincerity, assumes that people should problematise the truth about their own selves, and their utterances shoul...
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| Language: | English |
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University of Groningen Press
2020-06-01
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| Series: | European Journal of Life Writing |
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| Online Access: | https://ejlw.eu/article/view/36333 |