Politeness in compliment responses: A perspective from naturally occurring exchanges in Turkish

Pragmatics

Volumn 16, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 43-101

  Ruhi, Şükriye ^a  

^a MIDDLE EAST TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

(Im)politeness; Face; Self politeness; Turkish compliment responses

Indexed keywords

EID: 33744494537     PISSN: 10182101     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1075/prag.16.1.03ruh     Document Type: Article

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