Show/Hide Menu
Hide/Show Apps
anonymousUser
Logout
Türkçe
Türkçe
Search
Search
Login
Login
OpenMETU
OpenMETU
About
About
Open Science Policy
Open Science Policy
Communities & Collections
Communities & Collections
Help
Help
Frequently Asked Questions
Frequently Asked Questions
Videos
Videos
Thesis submission
Thesis submission
Publication submission with DOI
Publication submission with DOI
Publication submission
Publication submission
Contact us
Contact us
'Face' across historical cultures A comparative study of Turkish and Chinese
Date
2011-01-01
Author
Ruhi, Sukriye
Kadar, Daniel Z.
Metadata
Show full item record
This work is licensed under a
Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License
.
Item Usage Stats
29
views
0
downloads
Cite This
This paper investigates the use of the word 'face' in late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century Turkish and Chinese so as to trace the meaning of the concept in the two languages and cultures. The study describes the occurrence of the lexeme in five semantic/pragmatic domains in novels dating from the turn of the twentieth century, a period that corresponds to an acceleration in modernisation movements. Two conclusions are drawn from the comparison of face in Turkish and Chinese, and noteworthy similarities and differences are shown. The interpersonal and the emotional domains cover a wide usage area but form mirror images of each other in terms of the frequency of the tokens. Yet, the Chinese novels reveal more metapragmatic discourse on talk. This is interpreted as face forming a profound emic notion in Chinese culture, which encompasses both relational management and the social worth of the person, while the Turkish novels suggest that it is an "idiom" primarily employed for describing relational management style.
Subject Keywords
Linguistics and Language
,
Language and Linguistics
URI
https://hdl.handle.net/11511/65901
Journal
JOURNAL OF HISTORICAL PRAGMATICS
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1075/jhp.12.1-2.02ruh
Collections
Department of Foreign Language Education, Article
Citation Formats
IEEE
ACM
APA
CHICAGO
MLA
BibTeX
S. Ruhi and D. Z. Kadar, “‘Face’ across historical cultures A comparative study of Turkish and Chinese,”
JOURNAL OF HISTORICAL PRAGMATICS
, vol. 12, pp. 25–48, 2011, Accessed: 00, 2020. [Online]. Available: https://hdl.handle.net/11511/65901.