Publications

Publication details [#12580]

Eisenstein, Miriam, Jean W. Bodman and Mary Carpenter. 1996. Cross-cultural realization of greetings in American English. In Gass, Susan M. and Joyce Neu, eds. Speech Acts Across Cultures. Challenges to Communication in a Second Language. (Studies on Language Acquisition 11). De Gruyter Mouton. pp. 89–107.

Publication type

Article in book

Publication language

English

Keywords

crosscultural communication | greeting | speech act

Language as a subject

English, American

Annotation

This study reveals that non-native English speakers experience difficulty with various aspects of American greetings on both productive and receptive levels.