MEANS OF EXPRESSING GRATITUDE IN ENGLISH AND BULGARIAN – PRAGMATIC DIMENSIONS
The paper investigates different ways and means of indicating gratitude exploited in English and Bulgarian. It basically focuses on a number of thanking situations, strategies and expressions with respect to use, politeness orientation and specificities. A division is further made between thanks, ap...
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Konstantin Preslavsky University of Shumen
2019-11-01
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| description | The paper investigates different ways and means of indicating gratitude exploited in English and Bulgarian. It basically focuses on a number of thanking situations, strategies and expressions with respect to use, politeness orientation and specificities. A division is further made between thanks, appreciation and gratitude. The aim of the article is to present the English patterns of speech acts of thanking in context-dependent speech situations and the challenges to learners when being exposed to input settings similar to the linguistic reality of the target community. The paper also dwells on the disparities and inaccuracies which may occur between the learners’ native pragmatic knowledge and the expressions of gratitude which are most likely to be uttered by native speakers of English. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-27697bba63604f299f768e87bf901adf2022-12-21T22:57:28ZengKonstantin Preslavsky University of ShumenStudies in Linguistics, Culture, and FLT2534-952X2534-95382019-11-017364710.46687/SILC.2019.v07.003MEANS OF EXPRESSING GRATITUDE IN ENGLISH AND BULGARIAN – PRAGMATIC DIMENSIONSDeyana Peneva0https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5321-0787Department of English Studies, Shumen University, BulgariaThe paper investigates different ways and means of indicating gratitude exploited in English and Bulgarian. It basically focuses on a number of thanking situations, strategies and expressions with respect to use, politeness orientation and specificities. A division is further made between thanks, appreciation and gratitude. The aim of the article is to present the English patterns of speech acts of thanking in context-dependent speech situations and the challenges to learners when being exposed to input settings similar to the linguistic reality of the target community. The paper also dwells on the disparities and inaccuracies which may occur between the learners’ native pragmatic knowledge and the expressions of gratitude which are most likely to be uttered by native speakers of English.http://silc.shu.bg/images/issues/2019/vol7/SILC_2019_Vol%207_036-047_12.pdfcontextgratitudepolitenesspragmaticsthanks |
| spellingShingle | Deyana Peneva MEANS OF EXPRESSING GRATITUDE IN ENGLISH AND BULGARIAN – PRAGMATIC DIMENSIONS Studies in Linguistics, Culture, and FLT context gratitude politeness pragmatics thanks |
| title | MEANS OF EXPRESSING GRATITUDE IN ENGLISH AND BULGARIAN – PRAGMATIC DIMENSIONS |
| title_full | MEANS OF EXPRESSING GRATITUDE IN ENGLISH AND BULGARIAN – PRAGMATIC DIMENSIONS |
| title_fullStr | MEANS OF EXPRESSING GRATITUDE IN ENGLISH AND BULGARIAN – PRAGMATIC DIMENSIONS |
| title_full_unstemmed | MEANS OF EXPRESSING GRATITUDE IN ENGLISH AND BULGARIAN – PRAGMATIC DIMENSIONS |
| title_short | MEANS OF EXPRESSING GRATITUDE IN ENGLISH AND BULGARIAN – PRAGMATIC DIMENSIONS |
| title_sort | means of expressing gratitude in english and bulgarian pragmatic dimensions |
| topic | context gratitude politeness pragmatics thanks |
| url | http://silc.shu.bg/images/issues/2019/vol7/SILC_2019_Vol%207_036-047_12.pdf |
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