Publications

Publication details [#46270]

Katz, Albert N., Melony Lenhardt and Kirsten Mitchell. 2007. On Acknowledging Thanks for Performing a Favor. Metaphor and Symbol 22 (3) : 233–250.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

acknowledging | favor asking | phatic function | social role | thanking

Place, Publisher

Routledge

Journal WWW

www.erlbaum.com/Journals/Electronic/electronic.htm

Annotation

This study shows that people moderate their thanks in function of a favor's cost and depending on the people they are talking to, and that gratitude acknowledgments cannot be regarded as bare communication.