PT Journal
AU Novakova, E
TI "CAN('T) YOU SAY HELLO?" CZECH AND ENGLISH POLITENESS STRATEGIES IN INTERCORP
SO Bohemica Olomucensia
PY 2022
BP 10
EP 38
VL 14
IS 2
DI 10.5507/bo.2022.018
DE politeness; greetings; parallel corpus; pragmatic shifts; contrastive functional analysis
AB The paper discusses the results of a functional contrastive analysis focusing on the most common greetings in Czech and their English equivalents in the parallel corpus InterCorp. It contrasts forms and functions of polite expressions, examines potential cross-linguistic pragmatic shifts, and ponders on usability of corpus data in the research in politeness.
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