Berat Ba er

Turkish and American Address Forms in the Family

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Address forms can be very problematic in intercultural communication because different languages have different forms available at their disposal. This book provides a comparison of how Turkish and American people address each other in the family, since literature on this topic is scarce. The definitions of key address forms, theories of politeness and address, and a description of the address systems in Turkish and English (with a particular focus on contemporary American English) are included. Turkish and American address forms used in the family have been compared in this book, using original data collected for this purpose by the author. This book also presents possible explanations as to why the differences between the address forms in the two languages were found. This study should help English as a second/ foreign language teachers enable their students whose native language is Turkish to become competent communicators in the target culture. It also gives insights to Turkish-language instructors teaching Turkish to Americans, and generally, to anybody who is striving to become a competent communicator in either of these cultures.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: LAP Lambert Academic Publishing
• Seitenzahl: 200
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. Dezember 2012
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 220mm x 150mm x 13mm
• Gewicht: 316g
• ISBN-13: 9783659268755
• ISBN-10: 3659268755
• Artikelnr.: 36854341

Autorenporträt

Berat Baser is an instructor at the School of Foreign Languages at Bogaziçi University, Turkey. She is currently a PhD candidate in the Department of English at the University of Vienna, Austria, working on English as a Lingua Franca for her dissertation. She studied at Bogaziçi University and the State University of New York at Binghamton, USA.