“Can(’t) You Say Hello?” Czech and English Politeness Strategies in InterCorp Cover Image

„(Ne)umíš pozdravit?“ Zdvořilostní strategie v češtině a angličtině v korpusu InterCorp
“Can(’t) You Say Hello?” Czech and English Politeness Strategies in InterCorp

Author(s): Eva Nováková
Subject(s): Language studies, Language and Literature Studies
Published by: Univerzita Palackého v Olomouci
Keywords: politeness; greetings; parallel corpus; pragmatic shifts; contrastive functional analysis

Summary/Abstract: 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.

  • Issue Year: 14/2022
  • Issue No: 2
  • Page Range: 10-38
  • Page Count: 29
  • Language: Czech
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