Publications

Publication details [#12129]

Terkourafi, Marina. 1999. Frames for politeness: A case study. Pragmatics 9 (1) : 97–117.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

diminutive | frame | language use | politeness

Language as a subject

Greek, Cypriot | Greek, Modern

Place, Publisher

International Pragmatics Association

ISBN

1018-2101

Journal DOI

10.1075/prag

Annotation

It is argued that usage differences of diminutive forms in Modern and Cypriot Greek can be more adequately described by way of a cognitive frame structure.