Publications

Publication details [#53046]

Pedersen, Jan. 2010. The different Swedish tack: An ethnopragmatic investigation of Swedish thanking and related concepts. Journal of Pragmatics 42 (5) : 1258–1265.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

ethnopragmatics | language and culture | language use | natural semantic metalanguage | thanking

Language as a subject

Swedish

Place, Publisher

Elsevier

Journal WWW

www.sciencedirect.com/web-editions

Annotation

This ethnopragmatic analysis of the Swedish cultural key word 'tack' (cfr. English 'thanks' and 'please') and its related concepts, demonstrates that there are peculiarities in the Swedish language that can be approachable to outsiders via natural semantic metalanguage.