Linguistic Politeness Across Boundaries: The Case of Greek and Turkish

454 Pages·2002·2.23 MB·English

by  Arin Bayraktaroğlu (ed.)

LINGUISTIC POLITENESS ACROSS BOUNDARIES
Pragmatics & Beyond
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Edited by Arin Bayraktaroglu and Maria Sifianou
Linguistic Politeness Across Boundaries:
The case of Greek and Turkish
LINGUISTIC POLITENESS
ACROSS BOUNDARIES
THE CASE OF GREEK AND TURKISH
Edited by
ARIN BAYRAKTAROGLU
Cambridge Centre for Languages
MARIA SIFIANOU
University of Athens
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Contributors
Eleni Antonopoulou, Associate Professor, Faculty of English Studies, Uni-
versity of Athens, Greece
Ar(cid:1)(cid:1)(cid:1)(cid:1)(cid:1)n Bayraktaroglu, Director, The Cambridge Centre for Languages,
Sawston Hall, Cambridge, England
Yasemin Bayyurt, Assistant Professor, Department of Foreign Language
Education, University of Bosphorus, Istanbul, Turkey
Gürkan Dogan, Associate Professor, Department of Turkish Language and
Literature, Eastern Mediterranean University, Cyprus
Seran Dogançay-Aktuna, Associate Professor, Faculty of Education, Uni-
versity of Bosphorus, Istanbul, Turkey
Renée Hirschon, Lecturer, St. Peter’s College, University of Oxford, and
Honorary Research Fellow, Oxford Brookes University, England
Sibel Kam(cid:1)(cid:1)(cid:1)(cid:1)(cid:1)sl(cid:1)(cid:1)(cid:1)(cid:1)(cid:1), Associate Professor, Department of English, Sabanci Univer-
sity, Istanbul, Turkey
Marianthi Makri-Tsilipakou, Associate Professor, School of English, Aris-
totle University of Thessaloniki, Greece
Theodossia-Soula Pavlidou, Professor, Department of Linguistics, Aristotle
University of Thessaloniki, Greece
S¸ükriye Ruhi, Associate Professor, Department of Foreign Language Educa-
tion, Middle East Technical University, Ankara, Turkey
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Maria Sifianou, Professor, Faculty of English Studies, University of Athens,
Greece
Angeliki Tzanne, Lecturer, Faculty of English Studies, University of Athens,
Greece
Alev Yemenici, Assistant Professor, Department of Foreign Language Edu-
cation, Middle East Technical University, Ankara, Turkey
Deniz Zeyrek, Associate Professor, Department of English, Middle East
Technical University, Ankara, Turkey
Contents
Sachiko Ide
Preface xi
Ar(cid:1)n Bayraktaroglu and Maria Sifianou
Introduction 1
Renée Hirschon
Freedom, solidarity and obligation: The socio-cultural context of
Greek politeness 17
Deniz Zeyrek
Politeness in Turkish and its linguistic manifestations: A socio-
cultural perspective 43
Seran Dogançay-Aktuna and Sibel Kam(cid:1)s¸l(cid:1)
Linguistics of power and politeness in Turkish: Revelations from
speech acts 75
Theodossia-Soula Pavlidou
Politeness in the classroom?: Evidence from a Greek high school 105
Marianthi Makri-Tsilipakou
Congratulations and bravo! 137
Ar(cid:1)n Bayraktaroglu
Advice-giving in Turkish: “Superiority” or “solidarity”? 177
Yasemin Bayyurt and Ar(cid:1)n Bayraktaroglu
The use of pronouns and terms of address in Turkish service
encounters 209