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Publication details [#19464]
Bayraktaroğlu, Arın and Maria Sifianou, eds. 2001. Linguistic Politeness Across Boundaries: The case of Greek and Turkish. (Pragmatics and Beyond: New Series 88). John Benjamins. xiv +439 pp.
Publication type
Book – edited volume
Publication language
English
Keywords
Language as a subject
ISBN
90 272 5107 X
Annotation
This volume includes 14 papers investigating politeness phenomena in Greece and Turkey, the cultural cross-roads of Europe, Asia and the Middle East. It reflects current research and provides observations of and findings in patterns of linguistic politeness in a geographical area other than the much studied English speaking ones. Articles in the collection are empirically rather than theoretically oriented and examine realisations of politeness in relation to social parameters. The chapters have been arranged in pairs (Greek/Turkish), treating the following related issues: firstly a more general ethnographic picture of the two societies, the variables of power/status in classroom and other interaction, solidarity in advice-giving and the use of approbatory expressions, service encounters and the differential use of language by males and females, the use of interruptions in television talk, and finally compliments.
Articles in this volume
Hirschon, Renée. Freedom, solidarity and obligation: The socio-cultural context of Greek politeness. 17
Zeyrek, Deniz. Politeness in Turkish and its linguistic manifestations: A socio-cultural perspective. 43
Dogançay-Aktuna, Seran and Sibel Kamisli. Linguistics of power and politeness in Turkish: Revelations from speech acts. 75
Bayyurt, Yasemin and Arın Bayraktaroğlu. The use of pronouns and terms of address in Turkish service encounters. 209
Tzanne, Angeliki. “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 discussions. 271
Yemenici, Alev. Analysis of the use of politeness maxims in interruptions in Turkish political debates. 307