Publications

Publication details [#27055]

Aston, Guy. 1995. Say 'thank you': Some pragmatic constraints in conversational closings. Applied Linguistics 16 (1) : 57–86.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

conversational closing | crosslinguistic perspective | pedagogy | service encounter | thanking

Language as a subject

English | Italian

Place, Publisher

Oxford University Press

ISBN

0142-6001

Journal WWW

http://www3.oup.co.uk/applij/contents/

Annotation

This analysis suggests that crosscultural differences in conversational closings -in casu in English and Italian service encounters-, may as well be attributed to different concerns of conversational management as to varying perceptions of the overall situation.