Socially Deictic Use of a Body-part Term in Turkish
In this paper I analyze the use of a particular body part term in Turkish. The analysis is partly based on the work by Liston 1972. Furthermore, I demonstrate that this particular body part term appears frequently in usage with socially determined deictic meanings.
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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University of Kansas, Department of Linguistics
1989-01-01
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| Series: | Kansas Working Papers in Linguistics |
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| Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/1808/574 |
| Summary: | In this paper I analyze the use of a particular body part term in Turkish. The analysis is partly based on the work by Liston 1972. Furthermore, I demonstrate that this particular body part term appears frequently in usage with socially determined deictic meanings. |
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| ISSN: | 2378-7600 |