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Publication details [#54880]

De Pablos-Ortega, Carlos. 2011. The pragmatics of thanking reflected in the textbooks for teaching Spanish as a foreign language. Journal of Pragmatics 43 (9) : 2411–2433.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

foreign language teaching | formulaic expression | pragmatics | textbook | thanking

Language as a subject

Spanish

Place, Publisher

Elsevier

Journal WWW

www.sciencedirect.com/web-editions

Annotation

This article sets out to offer a classification for the speech act of thanking as observed in the textbooks for teaching Spanish as a foreign language and to establish the formulaic sequences employed when conveying gratitude -from a pragmalinguistic perspective- in the Spanish language.