Health to Our Mouths [electronic resource] : Formulaic Expressions in Turkish and Greek. Proceedings of the 3rd Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society / Deborah Tannen and Piyale Comert Oztek.

Speakers of Turkish and Greek make far more extensive use of formulaic expressions than do speakers of English. Many of these formulas are situation-oriented, and accompany anxiety-provoking events, happy events, and the act of establishing rapport. Illness, death, leave-taking, and good fortune are...

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Online Access:	Full Text (via ERIC)
Main Author:	Tannen, Deborah
Other Authors:	Oztek, Piyale Comert
Format:	Electronic eBook
Language:	English
Published:	[S.l.] : Distributed by ERIC Clearinghouse, 1977.
Subjects:	Cultural Context. Discourse Analysis. Greek. Social Structure. Social Values. Sociolinguistics. Standard Spoken Usage. Turkish.