Publications

Publication details [#9369]

Tannen, Deborah F. and Piyale Cömert Öztek. 1977. Health to our mouths: Formulaic expressions in Turkish and Greek. Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society 3 : 516–534.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

conventionality | formulaic expression

Language as a subject

Greek, Modern | Turkish

Annotation

A comparison between Turkish and Greek formulaic expressions, i.e. fixed expressions which are inseparably linked to a use in a specific context. It is meant to support the view that meaning in conversation is deduced from what is known about the context and from conventionalized interpretations rather than from a semantic analysis of the words uttered.

Reprints

Coulmas, Florian. 1981. In Coulmas, Florian, ed. Conversational routine: Explorations in standardized communication situations and prepatterned speech. Mouton. pp. 37–54.