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Linguistic and cultural peculiarities of Turkish and Arabic speech etiquette in farewells and greetings

  • Elnara Dulayeva EMAIL logo , Fatima Mamedova und Agnur Khalel
Veröffentlicht/Copyright: 30. Oktober 2023
Semiotica
Aus der Zeitschrift Semiotica Band 2023 Heft 255

Abstract

The peculiarities of speech etiquette in each language are determined by historical, cultural, social, cognitive, and religious factors. The study of greeting and farewell speech formulas in Turkish and Arabic is relevant for identifying key linguacultural meanings and concepts using conceptual modeling. The purpose is to analyze the linguistic and cultural conditioning of etiquette formulas in these languages. Linguacultural analysis of linguistic facts was used, along with elements of conceptual, communicative, comparative, and semantic analysis. The results show that the conceptual structure of etiquette formulas consists of functional-semantic fields like temporality, religiosity, marking conversation beginnings/endings. In Turkish, temporal concepts like “day” and “morning” are most frequent, while in Arabic religious concepts like “Allah” and “peace” prevail. Similarities include polite treatment of interlocutors, adherence to religious traditions, and hospitality. Differences lie in the degree of metaphoricality, imagery, and extended responses. The conclusions form ideas about the interrelations between core and peripheral linguacultural concepts, linguistic diversity, and invariance of etiquette formulas, their cognitive representation and role in shaping linguistic personality. The study contributes to understanding national mentality through the analysis of speech formulas.

Keywords: conceptual structure; functional-semantic field; temporality; religiosity; hospitality
Corresponding author: Elnara Dulayeva, Al-Farabi Kazakh National University, Almaty, Kazakhstan, E-mail:

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Received: 2023-05-24
Accepted: 2023-09-29
Published Online: 2023-10-30
Published in Print: 2023-11-27

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https://doi.org/10.1515/sem-2023-0074
Schlagwörter für diesen Artikel
conceptual structure; functional-semantic field; temporality; religiosity; hospitality

Artikel in diesem Heft

  1. Frontmatter
  2. Some pragmatic consequences to the order of determination of the object’s trichotomies in Peirce’s late semiotics
  3. Justice must be seen to be done: a multimodal attitude analysis of attorneys’ closing arguments
  4. Linguistic and cultural peculiarities of Turkish and Arabic speech etiquette in farewells and greetings
  5. Special section: The face in the sphere: towards a cultural semiotics of the visage; Guest editor: Federico Bellentani
  6. Oblique semiotics: the semiotics of the mirror and specular reflections in Lotman and Eco
  7. Heterotopias and the facesphere: “Living Pictures: Photography in Southeast Asia”
  8. A monument’s many faces: the meanings of the face in monuments and memorials
  9. Activist masks in the Latin American social protest
  10. Above the heteronormative narrative: looking up the place of Disney’s villains
  11. Lotman’s semiotics of culture in the age of AI: analyzing the cultural dynamics of AI-generated video art in the semiosphere
  12. Review Article
  13. La sémiotique en 2022 : le bilan de l’année
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