Teaching impoliteness through rap music in the second-language classroom
As a recent study (Gasbarra & Samu, in press) has demonstrated Italian L2/FL teachers tend to deal with several aspects of pragmatics in class, such... Read More
The pragmatic functions of please compared to the (im)polite Norwegian politeness marker vennligst
Norwegian-English dictionaries describe the pragmatic function of vennligst as being that of a polite request and translate it into please. Our interest in vennligst started... Read More
A cross-cultural analysis of disagreement in spoken Chinese and French from a frame-based approach of politeness
This study explores how Chinese and French native speakers express disagreement in an informal context through a corpus of spoken French and Chinese (33,169 words... Read More