The case of Turkish: Relevance theory and compliments as phatic communication

Ruhi, Şükriye; Doğan, Gürkan

doi:10.1075/pbns.88.13ruh

In:Linguistic Politeness Across Boundaries: The case of Greek and Turkish
Edited by Arın Bayraktaroğlu and Maria Sifianou
[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series 88] 2001
► pp. 341–390

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Relevance theory and compliments as phatic communication

The case of Turkish

Şükriye Ruhi

Gürkan Doğan

Published online: 30 October 2001

https://doi.org/10.1075/pbns.88.13ruh

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