CONTRASTIVE ANALYSIS OF LINGUISTIC STRATEGIES USED TO EXPRESS EXPLICIT, EMOTIONAL GRATITUDE IN MACEDONIAN AND ENGLISH
CONTRASTIVE ANALYSIS OF LINGUISTIC STRATEGIES USED TO EXPRESS EXPLICIT, EMOTIONAL GRATITUDE IN MACEDONIAN AND ENGLISH

Summary/Abstract: The lack of pragma-linquistic competence, i. e. the inadequate implementationof the forms and functions of speech acts in interactions among interlocutors with different culturalbackgrounds and different native languages often leads to misunderstandings and difficultiesin their communication. These issues emerge especially due to non-native speakers’ unawarenessthat certain forms have more than one function. In this paper1 we focus our attention on comparingthe linguistic strategies used for expressing explicit, emotional gratitude in Macedonian and English,“fala” and “blagodaram” and “thanks” and “thank you” respectively, with regard to their usagein informal and formal speech and their functions as politeness and discourse markers.

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