POLITENESS AND COURTESY IN SANAANI SOCIETY

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HANAN MALOOM
JULIEN DUFOUR
FRANÇOIS DUMAS

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The inhabitants of Sanaa consider the mīzih, the sanaani politeness, as one of their main characteristics and an important part of their cultural heritage.The good manners and expressions of politeness, which rule and reflect the relationships between social classes, genders, generations and, eventually, between individual and community, constitute a privileged observatory of the social and linguistic transformations in mo-dern Yemen.

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