Maria Sifianou
Biographic Data
| ID | 732342 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Maria Sifianou |
| GIVEN NAMES | Maria |
| FAMILY NAME | Sifianou |
| SIGNATURE | SIFIANOU M |
| AFFILIATIONS | National and Kapodistrian University of Athens |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-3231-937X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 22 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 219 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 20 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1989 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 8 |
Well-wishing practices in Greek and English food blogs
Wishes are remarks that express the desire that things will turn out well for one’s interlocutor. They are among the expressive speech acts that have received scant scholarly attention. Purporting to further their study in online communication and extend the line of their comparative analysis, the present study examines wishes in the digital environment of Greek and English food blogs. Employing the relational work framework, our study examines 1…
On Understandings of Politeness in Greek, Again
Recent discursive approaches to im/politeness have emphasised the significance of exploring non-academic understandings of im/politeness. Pursuing this line of research, the data for this paper come from a questionnaire distributed to 100 undergraduate female university students. The informants were asked to provide some attributes of a polite person and offer examples of a person or behaviour that impressed them as being polite. The aim was to e…
Dangerous politeness? Understandings of politeness in the Covid-19 era and beyond
What (im)politeness means changes over time. As these changes are usually gradual, we tend to be relatively unaware of them. However, when changes are abrupt, people not only notice but are also concerned with them. The COVID-19 pandemic entailed such abrupt changes involving new rules most of which are at odds with the rather automatic conventions of politeness that we follow. My aim in this paper is to explore what politeness means to non-acade…
Im/politeness and discursive pragmatics
Im/politeness and in/civility: A neglected relationship
Introduction: Im/politeness and globalisation
The impact of globalisation on brief Greek service encounters
Conceptualizing politeness in Japanese and Greek
The main aim of this paper is to investigate how Japanese and Greek female students conceptualize politeness and then compare the findings in order to tease out any cross-cultural similarities and differences. The data is drawn from a questionnaire filled in by two hundred female undergraduates (one hundred from each group). The results show that there are significant similarities as well as some differences. Although research on im/politeness ha…
Conceptualizing politeness in Greek: Evidence from Twitter corpora
The impact of globalisation on politeness and impoliteness
The iron fist in a velvet glove: How politeness can contribute to impoliteness
Disagreements, face and politeness
Conceptualizations of politeness and impoliteness in Greek
In recent years, researchers have explored politeness and impoliteness extensively and have attempted to construct theoretical frameworks that would account for both phenomena. Research on im-politeness focuses almost exclusively on linguistic performance and investigates the phenomena in relation to the behavior of individuals in verbal interaction (see Brown and Levinson, Politeness: Some universals in language usage, Cambridge University Press…
Linguistic Politeness Across Boundaries: The Case of Greek and Turkish
Themes in Greek Linguistics: Papers from the First International Conference on Greek Linguistics, Reading, September 1993
Politeness and off-record indirectness
The view that politeness is the major motivation for indirectness has been very influential. Such accounts based on British English view politeness primarily asformality and a means of expressing distance. The distinction drawn between on-record and off-record indirectness seems useful in clarifying some of the problems stemming from such view s. This paper focuses on off-record indirectness. Drawing evidence from Greek, it shows that offrecord i…
Do we need to be silent to be extremely polite? Silence and FTAs 1
This paper attempts to investigate the relationship between silence and politeness. More specifically, it focuses on Brown and Levinson's ([1978] 1987) superstrategy don't do the FTA (face‐threatening act) ‐ remain silent. It explores the nature of this superstrategy and the extent to which silence can realise the other major strategies for dealing with FTAs. It is claimed that this strategy is of restricted applicability and different in nature …
Themes in Greek Linguistics: Papers from the First International Conference on Greek Linguistics, Reading, September 1993
This volume brings together 65 papers which were presented at this Conference, the aim of which was to provide a forum for the exchange of ideas between scholars with expertise in various aspects of the Greek language. For this reason the volume contains the majority of the contributions. It should provide the linguistic community with a comprehensive work presenting the state-of-the-art in Greek Linguistics and covering a wide multidisciplinary …
Off-record indirectness and the notion of imposition
Politeness Phenomena in England And Greece: A Cross-Cultural Perspective
Politeness is crucial to successful communication and is consequently of great interest to those who study language and its social context. This book presents the first application of Brown and Levinson's ground-breaking theoretical work in a full-length comparative case-study. Maria Sifianou draws her data from a variety of sources, including literature (particularly drama), questionnaires, and personal observation. She attempts to discover the …
The use of diminutives in expressing politeness: Modern Greek versus English
On the telephone again! Differences in telephone behaviour: England versus Greece
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 …
Disagreements, face and politeness
The use of diminutives in expressing politeness: Modern Greek versus English
The impact of globalisation on politeness and impoliteness
Im/politeness and in/civility: A neglected relationship
Im/politeness and discursive pragmatics
On the telephone again! Differences in telephone behaviour: England versus Greece
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 …
Conceptualizations of politeness and impoliteness in Greek
In recent years, researchers have explored politeness and impoliteness extensively and have attempted to construct theoretical frameworks that would account for both phenomena. Research on im-politeness focuses almost exclusively on linguistic performance and investigates the phenomena in relation to the behavior of individuals in verbal interaction (see Brown and Levinson, Politeness: Some universals in language usage, Cambridge University Press…
Conceptualizing politeness in Japanese and Greek
The main aim of this paper is to investigate how Japanese and Greek female students conceptualize politeness and then compare the findings in order to tease out any cross-cultural similarities and differences. The data is drawn from a questionnaire filled in by two hundred female undergraduates (one hundred from each group). The results show that there are significant similarities as well as some differences. Although research on im/politeness ha…
Conceptualizing politeness in Greek: Evidence from Twitter corpora
The iron fist in a velvet glove: How politeness can contribute to impoliteness
Do we need to be silent to be extremely polite? Silence and FTAs 1
This paper attempts to investigate the relationship between silence and politeness. More specifically, it focuses on Brown and Levinson's ([1978] 1987) superstrategy don't do the FTA (face‐threatening act) ‐ remain silent. It explores the nature of this superstrategy and the extent to which silence can realise the other major strategies for dealing with FTAs. It is claimed that this strategy is of restricted applicability and different in nature …
Politeness and off-record indirectness
The view that politeness is the major motivation for indirectness has been very influential. Such accounts based on British English view politeness primarily asformality and a means of expressing distance. The distinction drawn between on-record and off-record indirectness seems useful in clarifying some of the problems stemming from such view s. This paper focuses on off-record indirectness. Drawing evidence from Greek, it shows that offrecord i…
Off-record indirectness and the notion of imposition
Introduction: Im/politeness and globalisation
Dangerous politeness? Understandings of politeness in the Covid-19 era and beyond
What (im)politeness means changes over time. As these changes are usually gradual, we tend to be relatively unaware of them. However, when changes are abrupt, people not only notice but are also concerned with them. The COVID-19 pandemic entailed such abrupt changes involving new rules most of which are at odds with the rather automatic conventions of politeness that we follow. My aim in this paper is to explore what politeness means to non-acade…
The impact of globalisation on brief Greek service encounters
On the telephone again! Differences in telephone behaviour: England versus Greece
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 …
Politeness Phenomena in England And Greece: A Cross-Cultural Perspective
Politeness is crucial to successful communication and is consequently of great interest to those who study language and its social context. This book presents the first application of Brown and Levinson's ground-breaking theoretical work in a full-length comparative case-study. Maria Sifianou draws her data from a variety of sources, including literature (particularly drama), questionnaires, and personal observation. She attempts to discover the …
The use of diminutives in expressing politeness: Modern Greek versus English
Off-record indirectness and the notion of imposition
Themes in Greek Linguistics: Papers from the First International Conference on Greek Linguistics, Reading, September 1993
This volume brings together 65 papers which were presented at this Conference, the aim of which was to provide a forum for the exchange of ideas between scholars with expertise in various aspects of the Greek language. For this reason the volume contains the majority of the contributions. It should provide the linguistic community with a comprehensive work presenting the state-of-the-art in Greek Linguistics and covering a wide multidisciplinary …
Do we need to be silent to be extremely polite? Silence and FTAs 1
This paper attempts to investigate the relationship between silence and politeness. More specifically, it focuses on Brown and Levinson's ([1978] 1987) superstrategy don't do the FTA (face‐threatening act) ‐ remain silent. It explores the nature of this superstrategy and the extent to which silence can realise the other major strategies for dealing with FTAs. It is claimed that this strategy is of restricted applicability and different in nature …
Politeness and off-record indirectness
The view that politeness is the major motivation for indirectness has been very influential. Such accounts based on British English view politeness primarily asformality and a means of expressing distance. The distinction drawn between on-record and off-record indirectness seems useful in clarifying some of the problems stemming from such view s. This paper focuses on off-record indirectness. Drawing evidence from Greek, it shows that offrecord i…
Themes in Greek Linguistics: Papers from the First International Conference on Greek Linguistics, Reading, September 1993
Linguistic Politeness Across Boundaries: The Case of Greek and Turkish
Conceptualizations of politeness and impoliteness in Greek
In recent years, researchers have explored politeness and impoliteness extensively and have attempted to construct theoretical frameworks that would account for both phenomena. Research on im-politeness focuses almost exclusively on linguistic performance and investigates the phenomena in relation to the behavior of individuals in verbal interaction (see Brown and Levinson, Politeness: Some universals in language usage, Cambridge University Press…
The iron fist in a velvet glove: How politeness can contribute to impoliteness
Disagreements, face and politeness
The impact of globalisation on politeness and impoliteness
Conceptualizing politeness in Greek: Evidence from Twitter corpora
Conceptualizing politeness in Japanese and Greek
The main aim of this paper is to investigate how Japanese and Greek female students conceptualize politeness and then compare the findings in order to tease out any cross-cultural similarities and differences. The data is drawn from a questionnaire filled in by two hundred female undergraduates (one hundred from each group). The results show that there are significant similarities as well as some differences. Although research on im/politeness ha…
Introduction: Im/politeness and globalisation
The impact of globalisation on brief Greek service encounters
Im/politeness and discursive pragmatics
Im/politeness and in/civility: A neglected relationship
On Understandings of Politeness in Greek, Again
Recent discursive approaches to im/politeness have emphasised the significance of exploring non-academic understandings of im/politeness. Pursuing this line of research, the data for this paper come from a questionnaire distributed to 100 undergraduate female university students. The informants were asked to provide some attributes of a polite person and offer examples of a person or behaviour that impressed them as being polite. The aim was to e…
Dangerous politeness? Understandings of politeness in the Covid-19 era and beyond
What (im)politeness means changes over time. As these changes are usually gradual, we tend to be relatively unaware of them. However, when changes are abrupt, people not only notice but are also concerned with them. The COVID-19 pandemic entailed such abrupt changes involving new rules most of which are at odds with the rather automatic conventions of politeness that we follow. My aim in this paper is to explore what politeness means to non-acade…
Well-wishing practices in Greek and English food blogs
Wishes are remarks that express the desire that things will turn out well for one’s interlocutor. They are among the expressive speech acts that have received scant scholarly attention. Purporting to further their study in online communication and extend the line of their comparative analysis, the present study examines wishes in the digital environment of Greek and English food blogs. Employing the relational work framework, our study examines 1…
Linguistics (20 works) · Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies (19 works) · Politeness (19 works) · Psychology (19 works) · Philosophy (17 works) · Discourse Analysis in Language Studies (14 works) · Sociology (14 works) · Philosophy (11 works) · Social Psychology (10 works) · Politeness Theory (8 works)