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respect and address in a Turkish village: a quantitative sociolinguistic account 1

Author(s) -

CASSON RONALD W.,

ÖZERTUǦ BÂNÛ

Publication year - 1976

Publication title -

american ethnologist

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 0.875

H-Index - 78

eISSN - 1548-1425

pISSN - 0094-0496

DOI - 10.1525/ae.1976.3.4.02a00030

Subject(s) - turkish , rank (graph theory) , linguistics , sociology , social relation , sociolinguistics , social science , mathematics , philosophy , combinatorics

Sociolinguistic studies have established that social relations are clearly expressed in language use. This paper examines social relations and their expression in kin term address usage in a Turkish village and suggests a refinement of this sociolinguistic finding. Quantitative analyses of respect rank and address usage among married male villagers suggest a general principle of language use: that unmarked social relations are expressed consistently in language use, but that marked relations are constrained and only weakly evident in usage .

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