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Publication details [#12764]
Eisenstein, Miriam and Jean W. Bodman. 1993. Expressing Gratitude in American English. In Kasper, Gabriele and Shoshana Blum-Kulka. Interlanguage Pragmatics. Oxford University Press. pp. 64–81.
Publication type
Article in book
Publication language
English
Keywords
Language as a subject
Annotation
This paper, examining the function of expressing gratitude in American English, clearly reveals that even advanced learners of English have considerable difficulty adequately expressing gratitude, as it involves a complex series of interactions and encodes cultural values and customs.