Publications

Publication details [#54740]

Al-Qinai, Jamal B.S. 2011. Translating phatic expressions. Pragmatics 21 (1) : 23–39.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

intercultural communication | misreading | phatic function | sociolinguistics | translation

Language as a subject

Arabic | English

Place, Publisher

International Pragmatics Association

Journal DOI

10.1075/prag

Annotation

This study examines the effect of mistranslating culturally divergent phatic communion expressions in an English-Arabic context. Other sociolinguistic parameters like age, sex, social status, topic and setting will be considered.