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Salut! Ça va? Vous avez passé un bon weekend?
journal contribution
posted on 2023-05-16, 11:50 authored by Peeters, BLUsing Wierzbicka's natural semantic metalanguage, this paper sets out to show the pragmatic differences between ‘health enquiries’ and ‘weekend routines’ in French and (Australian) English. In French, except in rare cases, ‘health enquiries’ and ‘weekend routines’ must be introduced by means of a greeting of some sort. In (Australian) English, they may take the place of conventional greeting behaviour. Phaticity in the case of the English phrases is considerably higher than in the case of the French phrases, which, in the context of an intercultural encounter, may result in pragmalinguistic and/or sociopragmatic failure. © 1999, Cambridge University Press. All rights reserved.
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Publication title
Journal of French Language StudiesVolume
9Pagination
239-257ISSN
0959-2695Department/School
School of HumanitiesPublisher
Cambridge University PressPlace of publication
UKRepository Status
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