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Publication details [#39376]

Davies, Eirlys. 1987. A Contrastive Approach to the Analysis of Politeness Formulas. Applied Linguistics 8 (1) : 75–88.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

formulaic expression | politeness

Language as a subject

Arabic, Moroccan | English

Place, Publisher

Oxford University Press

Journal WWW

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

Annotation

This paper presents a contrastive framework for the analysis and comparison of politeness formulas in first- and target-language, whilst examples taken from English and Moroccan Arabic illustrate the subtle differences that may arise and the problems that these may pose for the learner.