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Arin Bayraktaroglu and Maria Sifianou (eds.), Linguistic politeness across boundaries: The case of Greek and Turkish. Pragmatics and Beyond New Series, 88. Amsterdam: John Benjamins, 2001. Pp. xiv, 439. Hb $125.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 April 2004

Marina Terkourafi
Marina Terkourafi
Affiliation:
British School at Athens & University of Cambridge, Souidias 52, Athens GR-10676, mt217@cam.ac.uk
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Outlining potential applications of their politeness model toward the end of their seminal essay, Brown & Levinson wrote:

[Our] analysis focusing on the non-arbitrary order evident in linguistic styles allows for the relationship between language styles and social structure to be spelled out in detail. It is along these lines that we hope to be able to use our model of the universals of linguistic politeness to characterise the cross-cultural differences in ethos, the general tone of social interaction in different societies. (1987 [1978]:252–3)

In a response to this invitation that may well be seen, in a broader context, as a statement as political as it is scientific, the 12 original contributions to this volume begin to chart this terrain for two neighboring societies/cultures/languages: Greek and Turkish.

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BOOK REVIEW
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Language in Society , Volume 33 , Issue 2 , April 2004 , pp. 303 - 307
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© 2004 Cambridge University Press

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