The pragmatics of greeting, felicitation and condolence expressions in four Ethiopian languages∗

Yimam, Baye

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“…Yiman (1997) analyses from a formal point of view the expression of greetings, felicitations and condolences in four Ethiopian languages (Amharic, Oromo, Wolayita and Nuer), listing expressions that are highly conventionalised for specific recurrent situations (recovering from a long illness, good news, maternity). Similarly, Emery (2000: 209-212) studies expressions of greeting, congratulating and commiserating in Omani Arabic.…”

Section: The Speech Act Of Congratulation: Previous Studiesmentioning

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Congratulations in Latin Comedy: Types and functions

Gómez

2016

Journal of Politeness Research

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This paper contributes to the study of linguistic politeness in the Latin language, through the analysis of the speech act of congratulation. Taking the comedies of Plautus (ca. 254-184 B.C.) and Terence (ca. 185-159 B.C.) as the corpus, the present study analyses both the possibilities that the speaker has at his/her disposal to express this communicative intention, and the interferences that are produced with other speech acts that are conceptualised in a similar way in the corpus. The article also discusses some of the sociolinguistic distribution tendencies at play.

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Section: The Speech Act Of Congratulation: Previous Studiesmentioning

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Congratulations in Latin Comedy: Types and functions

Gómez

2016

Journal of Politeness Research

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“…Comparing the situational frames for the routine formulae “congratulations!” in English with “o‐medetō gozaimasu” in Japanese, he pointed out differences between their pragmatic conditions and argued that routine formulae are typical of a given sociocultural system. In a similar vein, Yiman (1997) compared the structural patterns and the social contexts of highly conventionalized Congratulate expressions in four Ethiopian languages. Situations expecting congratulatory expressions include recovery from a long illness, pleasure, maternity, welcome, and festive occasions.…”

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A contrastive analysis of congratulate by native speakers of Chinese and advanced learners of Chinese

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Chen

Cao

2023

Int J App Linguistics

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The present study aims to contrast the performance of Congratulate by advanced learners of Chinese as a Foreign Language (CFL) and Chinese native speakers. Adopting a bottom‐up procedure, it discovers three types of Congratulate structures and seven categories of strategies used by both native speakers and advanced CFL learners. It also reveals that while social distance and power exert influence on the performance of Congratulate in both groups, significant differences exist in the overall distribution of these structures and categories of strategies. In addition, it discusses salient problems concerning the appropriateness of advanced CFL learners’ production with the aid of corpus‐based analysis and written interview. By supplementing a discourse completion test–based contrastive analysis with the two ancillary analyses, the study has a methodological implication for future empirical research in second language pragmatics.

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2018

Pragmatics &Amp; Beyond New Series

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The pragmatics of greeting, felicitation and condolence expressions in four Ethiopian languages∗

Cited by 6 publications

References 1 publication

Congratulations in Latin Comedy: Types and functions

Congratulations in Latin Comedy: Types and functions

A contrastive analysis of congratulate by native speakers of Chinese and advanced learners of Chinese

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