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Davies, Eirlys. 1987. A Contrastive Approach to the Analysis of Politeness Formulas. Applied Linguistics 8 (1) : 75–88.
Publication type
Article in journal
Publication language
English
Language as a subject
Place, Publisher
Oxford University Press

Annotation

This paper presents a contrastive framework for the analysis and comparison of politeness formulas in first- and target-language, whilst examples taken from English and Moroccan Arabic illustrate the subtle differences that may arise and the problems that these may pose for the learner.