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On the telephone again! Differences in telephone behaviour: England versus Greece

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  18 December 2008

Maria Sifianou
Maria Sifianou
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Department of English Studies, University of Athens
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Abstract

This article investigates differences in telephone behaviour in England and Greece in the light of Brown and Levinson's model of interaction. It focusses upon differences both in verbal telephone call behaviour and in the attitudes and values attached to telephone usage. Explanations are placed within a broad framework of cultural differences in the preferred interactional strategies of the two societies. (Sociolinguistics, culturally determined variations in telephone behaviour, politeness phenomena, Greece versus England)

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Language in Society , Volume 18 , Issue 4 , December 1989 , pp. 527 - 544
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1989

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