Abstract:This paper focusses on verbal politeness in the direct speech found in Vedic. Certain impersonalisation strategies
typical of classical Sanskrit are already attested here, as third-person polite directives or as the expression of the speaker’s
wishes, rather than as direct commands, and represent the maximum degree of illocutionary opacity. Passive syntax, which is a
prominent device of indirectness in classical Sanskrit, is still marginal in Vedic. In the analysis of terms of address, a
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