[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...
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International audienceWhile they were studied for a long time thanks to their historic contribution ...
This study examines variations in the performance of speech acts and additional discourse features i...
Thanking, as other speech acts such as apologizing or requesting, can be performed in numerous conte...
The main purpose of this article involves the analysis of certain aspects of the speech act of thank...
The main purpose of this article involves the analysis of certain aspects of the speech act of thank...
In this article we present the results of a contrastive analysis about the politeness strategies use...
As many authors have pointed out, politeness is a universal concept but the ways in which this polit...
Thanking, belonging to expressive speech acts, according to the classification by Searle (1969), can...
Politeness strategies in service encounters: a contrastive corpus analysis of French and Spanish ...
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In this dissertation, I investigate the role of linguistic politeness in the discursive construction...
The following study deals with politeness and the degree to which it is employed by Swedes and nativ...
This dissertation examines how French-speaking learners of Dutch as a foreign language express polit...
The aims and goals of this study have been to find out how native speakers of Norwegian and learners...
This study explores how American English and Peninsular Spanish speakers respond to a compliment. P...
International audienceWhile they were studied for a long time thanks to their historic contribution ...
This study examines variations in the performance of speech acts and additional discourse features i...
Thanking, as other speech acts such as apologizing or requesting, can be performed in numerous conte...
The main purpose of this article involves the analysis of certain aspects of the speech act of thank...
The main purpose of this article involves the analysis of certain aspects of the speech act of thank...
In this article we present the results of a contrastive analysis about the politeness strategies use...
As many authors have pointed out, politeness is a universal concept but the ways in which this polit...
Thanking, belonging to expressive speech acts, according to the classification by Searle (1969), can...
Politeness strategies in service encounters: a contrastive corpus analysis of French and Spanish ...
This study focuses on the politeness used in the acceptance speeches of all winners of the Cervantes...
In this dissertation, I investigate the role of linguistic politeness in the discursive construction...
The following study deals with politeness and the degree to which it is employed by Swedes and nativ...
This dissertation examines how French-speaking learners of Dutch as a foreign language express polit...
The aims and goals of this study have been to find out how native speakers of Norwegian and learners...
This study explores how American English and Peninsular Spanish speakers respond to a compliment. P...
International audienceWhile they were studied for a long time thanks to their historic contribution ...
This study examines variations in the performance of speech acts and additional discourse features i...