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Publication details [#52964]

De Pablos-Ortega, Carlos. 2010. Attitudes of English speakers towards thanking in Spanish. Pragmatics 20 (2) : 149–170.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

language and culture | language attitude | politeness | speech act | thanking

Language as a subject

English, American | English, British | Spanish

Place, Publisher

International Pragmatics Association

Journal DOI

10.1075/prag

Annotation

This study examines attitudes of native (British and American) English speakers towards the Spanish language and culture, in particular in relation to the speech act of thanking and in connection with Brown and Levinson’s politeness model.