“Oh!How appropriate!” Compliments and politeness

Sifianou, Maria

doi:10.1075/pbns.88.14sif

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. 391–430

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“Oh!How appropriate!” Compliments and politeness

Maria Sifianou

Published online: 30 October 2001

https://doi.org/10.1075/pbns.88.14sif

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