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LINGUISTIC POLITENESS ACROSS BOUNDARIES Pragmatics & Beyond New Series Editor: Andreas H. Jucker Justus Liebig University Giessen, English Department Otto-Behaghel-Strasse 10, D-35394 Giessen, Germany e-mail: [email protected] Associate Editors: Jacob L. Mey (Odense University) Herman Parret (Belgian National Science Foundation, Universities of Louvain and Antwerp) Jef Verschueren (Belgian National Science Foundation, Univ. of Antwerp) Editorial Board: Shoshana Blum-Kulka (Hebrew University of Jerusalem) Chris Butler (University College of Ripon and York); Jean Caron (Université de Poitiers) Robyn Carston (University College London); Bruce Fraser (Boston University) Thorstein Fretheim (University of Trondheim); John Heritage (University of California at Los Angeles) Susan Herring (University of Texas at Arlington); Masako K. Hiraga (St. Paul’s (Rikkyo) University) David Holdcroft (University of Leeds); Sachiko Ide (Japan Women’s University) Catherine Kerbrat-Orecchioni (University of Lyon 2) Claudia de Lemos (University of Campinas, Brazil); Marina Sbisà (University of Trieste) Emanuel Schegloff (University of California at Los Angeles) Deborah Schiffrin (Georgetown Univ.); Paul O. Takahara (Kobe City Univ. of Foreign Studies) Sandra Thompson (University of California at Santa Barbara) Teun A. Van Dijk (University of Amsterdam); Richard J. Watts (University of Berne) 88 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 JOHN BENJAMINS PUBLISHING COMPANY AMSTERDAM/PHILADELPHIA TM The paper used in this publication meets the minimum requirements of 8 American National Standard for Information Sciences — Permanence of Paper for Printed Library Materials, ANSI Z39.48-1984. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Linguistic politeness across boundaries : the case of Greek and Turkish / edited by Arin Bayraktaroglu, Maria Sifianou. p. cm. -- (Pragmatics & beyond, ISSN 0922-842X ; new ser. 88) Includes bibliographical references and index. 1. Grammar, Comparative and general--Honorific. 2. Greek language, Modern--Honor- ific. 3. Turkish language--Honorific. I. Bayraktaroglu, Arin, 1945-. II. Sifianou, Maria. III. Series. P299.H66 L56 2001 494’.355--dc21 00-067437 ISBN 90 272 5107 X (Eur.) / 1 58811 040 0 (US) (alk. paper) CIP © 2001 – John Benjamins B.V. No part of this book may be reproduced in any form, by print, photoprint, microfilm, or any other means, without written permission from the publisher. John Benjamins Publishing Co. • P.O.Box 36224 • 1020 ME Amsterdam • The Netherlands John Benjamins North America • P.O.Box 27519 • Philadelphia PA 19118-0519 • USA To the young generation represented by Christina, Kerem and Lucas 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 viii CONTRIBUTORS 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
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