This dissertation endeavors to describe politeness theory – depicting its characteristics, defining their strategies and illustrating those with examples – to show the importance politeness has in everyday-life conversations. To this end, Brown and Levinson’s politeness theory (1987) is used to justify the definition of politeness strategies, providing the initial classification for the analysis to be done. These theoretical definitions are illustrated with the examples of speech taken from the script of Love Actually, which provides the communicative acts’ cases. Then, the characterization of the movie’s characters is explained through the different politeness examples found in the analysis so as to highlight the importance of politene...
An institution’s unique identity and culture can be constructed and communicated through the artwork...
This thesis comprises a novel and a critical study. The novel is a first-person text which explores ...
Ankara : The Department of Graphic Design and the Institute of Fine Arts of Bilkent University, 2001...
The aim of this thesis is to address the question of love’s possibility as it is explored in a selec...
Theophany: Somewhere Between the Canyon and Stars is a three-movement, electroacoustic work written ...
This research aims to explore the forms of commissive expressions and how they are employed by the...
The development of alkene functionalizations is an important challenge in modern catalysis.1 This th...
2016 - 2017The main purpose of my thesis is to explore filmic adaptations and appropriations of Shak...
This thesis is an examination of physical pain in ancient tragedy, with the focus on three plays: Ae...
There is an as yet unacknowledged and incomparable contribution to the philosophical debates about k...
In the novels of John Banville, the search for authenticity is a well-established preoccupation of w...
Debussy’s works for the piano occupy a significant position in the concert repertoire and have pique...
A previous unpublished study found positive associations between jealousy (cognitive, emotional, beh...
The following document consists of a written interpretation of an actor’s work on approaching and ev...
This written thesis, transit, accompanies an exhibition by the same name and serves to contextualize...
An institution’s unique identity and culture can be constructed and communicated through the artwork...
This thesis comprises a novel and a critical study. The novel is a first-person text which explores ...
Ankara : The Department of Graphic Design and the Institute of Fine Arts of Bilkent University, 2001...
The aim of this thesis is to address the question of love’s possibility as it is explored in a selec...
Theophany: Somewhere Between the Canyon and Stars is a three-movement, electroacoustic work written ...
This research aims to explore the forms of commissive expressions and how they are employed by the...
The development of alkene functionalizations is an important challenge in modern catalysis.1 This th...
2016 - 2017The main purpose of my thesis is to explore filmic adaptations and appropriations of Shak...
This thesis is an examination of physical pain in ancient tragedy, with the focus on three plays: Ae...
There is an as yet unacknowledged and incomparable contribution to the philosophical debates about k...
In the novels of John Banville, the search for authenticity is a well-established preoccupation of w...
Debussy’s works for the piano occupy a significant position in the concert repertoire and have pique...
A previous unpublished study found positive associations between jealousy (cognitive, emotional, beh...
The following document consists of a written interpretation of an actor’s work on approaching and ev...
This written thesis, transit, accompanies an exhibition by the same name and serves to contextualize...
An institution’s unique identity and culture can be constructed and communicated through the artwork...
This thesis comprises a novel and a critical study. The novel is a first-person text which explores ...
Ankara : The Department of Graphic Design and the Institute of Fine Arts of Bilkent University, 2001...