Table of Contents
1. Preface (by Ide, Sachiko); 2. Introduction (by Bayraktaroglu, Arin); 3. Freedom, solidarity and obligation: The socio-cultural context of Greek politeness (by Hirschon, Renee); 4. Politeness in Turkish and its linguistic manifestations: A socio-cultural perspective (by Zeyrek, Deniz); 5. Linguistics of power and politeness in Turkish: Revelations from speech acts (by Dogancay-Aktuna, Seran); 6. Politeness in the classroom?: Evidence from a Greek high school (by Pavlidou, Theodossia-Soula); 7. Congratulations and bravo! (by Makri-Tsilipakou, Marianthi); 8. Advice-giving in Turkish: Superiority or solidarity ? (by Bayraktaroglu, Arin); 9. The use of pronouns and terms of address in Turkish service encounters (by Bayyurt, Yasemin); 10. Brief service encounters: Gender and politeness (by Antonopoulou, Eleni); 11. What you 're saying sounds very nice and I 'm delighted to hear it : Some considerations on the functions of presenter-initiated simultaneous speech in Greek panel discussions (by Tzanne, Angeliki); 12. Analysis of the use of politeness maxims in interruptions in Turkish political debates (by Yemenici, Alev); 13. Relevance theory and compliments as phatic communication: The case of Turkish (by Ruhi, Sukriye); 14. Oh!How appropriate! Compliments and politeness (by Sifianou, Maria)
