Şükriye Ruhi
List of John Benjamins publications for which Şükriye Ruhi plays a role.
2012 ‘Face’ across historical cultures: A comparative study of Turkish and Chinese Understanding Historical (Im)Politeness: Relational linguistic practice over time and across cultures, Bax, Marcel and Dániel Z. Kádár (eds.), pp. 25–48 | Article
This paper investigates the use of the word ‘face’ in late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century Turkish and Chinese so as to trace the meaning of the concept in the two languages and cultures. The study describes the occurrence of the lexeme in five semantic/pragmatic domains in novels dating… read more
2011 ‘Face’ across historical cultures: A comparative study of Turkish and Chinese Understanding Historical (Im)Politeness, Bax, Marcel and Dániel Z. Kádár (eds.), pp. 25–48 | Article
This paper investigates the use of the word ‘face’ in late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century Turkish and Chinese so as to trace the meaning of the concept in the two languages and cultures. The study describes the occurrence of the lexeme in five semantic/pragmatic domains in novels dating… read more
2006 Politeness in compliment responses: A perspective from naturally occurring exchanges in Turkish Pragmatics 16:1, pp. 43–101 | Article
This paper analyses a corpus of compliment responses in Turkish according to the conversational maxim approach (Leech 1983, 2003) and the face-management approach (Brown and Levinson 1987) with a view to extending the conceptualisation of self-presentation in theorising on politeness. It observes… read more
2002 Complimenting women in Turkish: Gender identity and otherness Us and Others: Social identities across languages, discourses and cultures, Duszak, Anna † (ed.), pp. 401–427 | Article
2001 Relevance theory and compliments as phatic communication: The case of Turkish Linguistic Politeness Across Boundaries: The case of Greek and Turkish, Bayraktaroğlu, Arın and Maria Sifianou (eds.), pp. 341–390 | Article