An exploratory study of discourse conventions in the European Parliament: Thanking in Spanish, French and Dutch Un estudio exploratorio de las convenciones discursivas en el parlamento europeo: los agradecimientos en español, francés y neerlandés

In this paper, we analyze a small-scale corpus with Spanish, French and Dutch interventions in the plenary debates in the European Parliament, in order to verify whether there exist cultural differences in the use and the expression of the particular politeness strategy of thanking somebody. We find...

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Main Authors: Patrick Goethals, Babette Blancke
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Universitat Politècnica de València 2013-07-01
Series:Revista de Lingüística y Lenguas Aplicadas
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Online Access:http://polipapers.upv.es/index.php/rdlyla/article/view/1251