[EN] In this paper, we analyze a small-scale corpus with Spanish, French and Dutch interventions in the plenary debates in the European Parliament, in order to verify whether there exist cultural differences in the use and the expression of the particular politeness strategy of thanking somebody. We find that thanking is more frequent in Spanish and French than in Dutch. In addition, it plays a more prominent role, e.g. because the acknowledgements are longer and receive more emphasis. Previous studies found that Dutch speakers tend to use many routine acknowledgements in contexts where there may be a threat to the negative face of one of the speech participants. Our study shows that French and Spanish speakers use more acknowledgements tha...
Discourse genres can vary from one culture to another (Connor, 2003) and studies suggest that second...
ABSTRACT (English) This study aims at presenting the first stage of a wider research project on som...
In this study we aimed to understand how didactic materials, destined to the teaching of the English...
[EN] There is a great variety of studies on linguistic mitigation in different genres and registers,...
What is the aim today of talking about philology, either in absolute terms or related to other conce...
[EN] This article offers a pragmatic reflection on the use of short stories in the teaching of Frenc...
The study of (im)politeness as a manifestation of the pragmatic communicative behavior in the variou...
Infinitive and subject in Portuguese and Spanish. An empirical study on adverbial infinitives with e...
[EN] Undoubtedly, tourism represents a cultural and economic asset for Spain and it demands particul...
Entre los fenómenos dinamizantes de la (des)cortesía verbal los saludos resultan de particular inter...
Adverbial insubordination has been studied for many languages (e.g. Japanese (Horie 2018), Brazilian...
The purpose of this article is to treat a currently much debated issue, the effects of age on second...
En Colombia, el Ministerio de Educación Nacional (MEN) creó en el 2004 el Programa Nacional de Bilin...
La communication porte sur le figement linguistique du verbe espagnol dejar avec l’infinitif caer da...
Tesis doctoral inédita leída en la Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Facultad de Filosofía y Letras, D...
Discourse genres can vary from one culture to another (Connor, 2003) and studies suggest that second...
ABSTRACT (English) This study aims at presenting the first stage of a wider research project on som...
In this study we aimed to understand how didactic materials, destined to the teaching of the English...
[EN] There is a great variety of studies on linguistic mitigation in different genres and registers,...
What is the aim today of talking about philology, either in absolute terms or related to other conce...
[EN] This article offers a pragmatic reflection on the use of short stories in the teaching of Frenc...
The study of (im)politeness as a manifestation of the pragmatic communicative behavior in the variou...
Infinitive and subject in Portuguese and Spanish. An empirical study on adverbial infinitives with e...
[EN] Undoubtedly, tourism represents a cultural and economic asset for Spain and it demands particul...
Entre los fenómenos dinamizantes de la (des)cortesía verbal los saludos resultan de particular inter...
Adverbial insubordination has been studied for many languages (e.g. Japanese (Horie 2018), Brazilian...
The purpose of this article is to treat a currently much debated issue, the effects of age on second...
En Colombia, el Ministerio de Educación Nacional (MEN) creó en el 2004 el Programa Nacional de Bilin...
La communication porte sur le figement linguistique du verbe espagnol dejar avec l’infinitif caer da...
Tesis doctoral inédita leída en la Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Facultad de Filosofía y Letras, D...
Discourse genres can vary from one culture to another (Connor, 2003) and studies suggest that second...
ABSTRACT (English) This study aims at presenting the first stage of a wider research project on som...
In this study we aimed to understand how didactic materials, destined to the teaching of the English...