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Publication details [#60050]

Farese, Gian Marco. 2015. Hi vs. Ciao: NSM as a tool for cross-linguistic pragmatics. Journal of Pragmatics 85 : 1–17.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

crosscultural communication | crosslinguistic perspective | greeting | meaning | natural semantic metalanguage

Language as a subject

English | Italian

Place, Publisher

Elsevier

Journal WWW

www.sciencedirect.com/web-editions

Annotation

Using Natural Semantic Metalanguage, this semantic analysis of two greetings, Hi (English) and Ciao (Italian), argues that salutations have a specific semantic content, and that they are otherwise devised and executed across languages, which may cause crosscultural miscommunication.