Conceptualizing face and relational work in (im)politeness: Revelations from politeness lexemes and idioms in Turkish

Journal of Pragmatics

Volumn 39, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 681-711

  Ruhi, Şükriye ^a   Işik Güler, Hale ^a  

^a MIDDLE EAST TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

(Im)politeness; Emic; Etic; Face; g n l; Relational work; Turkish; y z

Indexed keywords

EID: 33847170942     PISSN: 03782166     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pragma.2006.11.013     Document Type: Article

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