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Politeness as a Cultural Aspect in Japanese and Turkish Languages

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 January 2024

Ayşe Nur Tekmen
Ayşe Nur Tekmen*
Affiliation:
Ankara University, Turkey
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Ayşe Nur Tekmen, Department of Asian Languages and Cultures, Ankara University, 45/45-A, Sihhiye, Ankara 06100, Turkey. Email: tekmen@ankara.edu.tr; an.tekmen@gmail.com
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Abstract

Various studies have been made on different aspects of the Turkish and Japanese languages, but comparative studies between the two languages are still limited. The aim of this study is to describe the politeness strategy of these two languages from a cultural perspective within the paradigm of cognitive linguistics. Both Turkish and Japanese are agglutinative languages, and speakers of both languages prefer the subjective construal. So, if the typology of a language might be related to its perception, the conceptualization of ‘polite’ and the perception of politeness in that language may be alike.

Keywords

Politenesshonorificsintersubjectivitykoto-type expressions
Type
Articles
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Diogenes , Volume 64 , Issue 3-4: Contesting Method and Theory between Europe and Asia: Asian Studies in Turkey , November 2017 , pp. 103 - 110
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Copyright © ICPHS 2022

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