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Linguistic Politeness Across Boundaries: The case of Greek and Turkish
Edited by Arın Bayraktaroğlu and Maria Sifianou
[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series 88] 2001
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Table of contents

Prefacexi
Introduction1
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Freedom, solidarity and obligation: The socio-cultural context of Greek politeness17
Politeness in Turkish and its linguistic manifestations: A socio-cultural perspective43
Linguistics of power and politeness in Turkish: Revelations from speech acts75
Politeness in the classroom? Evidence from a Greek high school105
Congratulations and bravo!137
Advice-giving in Turkish: “Superiority” or “solidarity”?177
The use of pronouns and terms of address in Turkish service encounters209
Brief service encounters: Gender and politeness241
“What you ‘re saying sounds very nice and I ‘m delighted to hear it”: Some considerations on the functions of presenter-initiated simultaneous speech in Greek panel discussions271
Analysis of the use of politeness maxims in interruptions in Turkish political debates307
Relevance theory and compliments as phatic communication: The case of Turkish341
“Oh!How appropriate!” Compliments and politeness391
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