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. ![DOI logo](https://benjamins.com/logos/doi-logo.svg)
Publication type
Article in journal
Publication language
English
Keywords
Language as a subject
Place, Publisher
Elsevier
Journal WWW
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.