RT Journal Article
SR Electronic
A1 Nováková, Eva
T1 "CAN('T) YOU SAY HELLO?" CZECH AND ENGLISH POLITENESS STRATEGIES IN INTERCORP
JF Bohemica Olomucensia
YR 2022
VO 14
IS 2
SP 10
OP 38
DO 10.5507/bo.2022.018
UL https://bohemica.upol.cz/artkey/boh-202202-0002.php
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.