抄録< JATS1: p> Proust's famous madeleine captures the power of food to evoke some of
our deepest memories. Why does food hold such power? What does the growing …

How does the past matter in the present? How is a feeling of 'ownership'of the past
expressed in people's everyday lives? Should continuity with the distant past be seen as …

That philanthropy perpetuates the conditions that cause inequality is an old argument
shared by thinkers such as Karl Marx, Oscar Wilde and Slavoj Žižek. I recorded variations of …

The initial motivation for this study was the frequency and status of Modern Greek (MG) oral
narratives in people's everyday interactions, in particular compared to" western" storytelling …

Complimenting behaviour has received a lot of attention by scholars. 2 Compliments have
been defined as overt or covert expressions of praise and/or admiration for somebody other …

We could continue drawing out further parallels, alluding, for example, to the problematic
nature of fieldwork, dubious research methods, the agent's own coding of information and …

The aim of this paper is to investigate humorous exchanges in Greek telephone
conversation openings in the light of Raskin's (Raskin, Victor, 1985. Semantic Mechanisms …

In the contemporary world of the “global village”, ways of promoting understanding across
cultures are of critical importance. An increasing body of sociolinguistic studies shows the …

135 the limitations of singular representation and “the reduction of social life to fixed
forms”(Williams 1977, 129). Making visible the conflicting predilections of the author (and the …

Even though teasing has been extensively examined from an anthropological and
sociolinguistic perspective, as a rule, studies on teasing have explored teasing episodes …