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Salut! Ça va? Vous avez passé un bon weekend?

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posted on 2023-05-16, 11:50 authored by Peeters, BL
Using 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 Studies

Volume

9

Pagination

239-257

ISSN

0959-2695

Department/School

School of Humanities

Publisher

Cambridge University Press

Place of publication

UK

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  • Restricted

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Languages and linguistics

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