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Georgia Psychogyiou and Marianna Tritou
This study focuses on instances of betrayal in Kolokotronis’ Memoirs. The analysis uses trust theory to examine trust violation οn subjugated Greek territory. McKnight and Chervany (2000) combined trust-related characteristics and created four second-order conceptual categories, which correspond to the elements of competence, predictability, benevolence and integrity. The study reverses McKnight and Chervany’s model to categorize instances of trust-violation, as manifested in the Memoirs. It uses both quantitative and qualitative criteria to show that the mostly discussed trust-violation instance in the Memoirs is the conceptual category of benevolence, while the least encountered category is related to competence. Findings seem to shed light on the values the subjugated Greek society considered important at the time. Finally, studying betrayal as a violation of trust, brings to light further implications concerning betrayal as an expression of impoliteness, which does not seem to have been referred to in impoliteness models.
