[EDLING:1017] Re: sociolinguistics and Middle Eastern

[Felicia Lincoln]

Thank you so much.  I would love a copy of the article.  Is it 
large?  Should I send you postage?  My address is below.

I will begin Googling immedately! f

At 08:44 PM 9/29/2005 -0500, you wrote:

>Felicia,
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>     You might want to google Zohreh Eslami Rasekh from Texas A & M. She 
> has been working on politeness in Persian vs. American English, and if I 
> remember correctly, she recently had an article on this topic appear in 
> print - I am sorry I cannot remember the journal title but here is her 
> e-mail: zrasekh at coe.tamu.edu.  Another source you can check out is S. 
> Gass and J. Neu (Eds.) Speech acts across cultures, that has a couple of 
> chapters on speech act use in Egyptian Arabic that also touch on 
> politeness. Finally, if you consider Turkish an example of Middle Eastern 
> languages, you can look at my co-written chapter on "Linguistics of power 
> and politeness in Turkish: Revelations from speech acts" in Linguistic 
> Politeness Across Boundaries: The case of Greek and Turkish, A. 
> Bayraktaroglu & M. Sifianau (Eds.), John Benjamins, Amsterdam, 2001, 
> 75-104. I can send you a hardcopy via snail mail.
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>Hope these help.
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>Seran Dogancay-Aktuna
>Southern Illinois University Edwardsville
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>----- Original Message ----- From: "Felicia Lincoln" <flincoln at uark.edu>
>To: <edling at ccat.sas.upenn.edu>
>Sent: Thursday, September 29, 2005 12:07 PM
>Subject: [EDLING:1012] sociolinguistics and Middle Eastern
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>>I am trying to find information on the language of  politeness in Arabic. 
>>Or specific Arabic-speaking cultures.  Anybody know any sociolinguistic 
>>work being done among Middle Easterners? f
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>>Felicia Lincoln, Ph.D.
>>College of Education and Health Professions
>>Department of Curriculum and Instruction
>>203 Peabody Hall
>>Fayetteville, AR 72701-1201
>>479-575-8729
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>>The end of the dictatorship of English marks the beginning of North 
>>American cultural democracy.
>>-- Joshua A. Fishman, June 2002
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Felicia Lincoln, Ph.D.
College of Education and Health Professions
Department of Curriculum and Instruction
203 Peabody Hall
Fayetteville, AR 72701-1201
479-575-8729

The end of the dictatorship of English marks the beginning of North 
American cultural democracy.
-- Joshua A. Fishman, June 2002