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Title: Means of expressing gratitude in English and Bulgarian – pragmatic dimensions
Vol. 7, 2019, pp. 36-47.
DOI: 10.46687/SILC.2019.v07.003
Author: Deyana Peneva
About the author: Assistant Professor Deyana Peneva, PhD is a lecturer in the English Studies Department, Faculty of Humanities at Konstantin Preslavsky University of Shumen, Bulgaria. She holds lectures in Phonetics; Speech acts in English and Bulgarian; Linguistic models and strategies in spoken interaction with BA students in English studies and Applied Linguistics as well as seminars in Practical English (written practice, translation). Additionally, she takes lectures in Tour-guide practicing in MA programme English language for Business and Tourism. Her interests are in the area of Semantics; Cross-cultural Pragmatics; Speech acts; Discourse analysis; Spoken English and Phonetics.
e-mail: d.peneva@shu.bg
ORCID iD: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5321-0787
Citation (APA style): Peneva, D. (2019). Means of expressing gratitude in English and Bulgarian – pragmatic dimensions. Studies in Linguistics, Culture, and FLT, 7, 36-47. doi: 10.46687/SILC.2019.v07.003
Link: https://silc.fhn-shu.com/images/issues/2019/vol7/SILC_2019_Vol%207_036-047_12.pdf
Abstract: The paper investigates different ways and means of indicating gratitude exploited in English and Bulgarian. It basically focuses on a number of thanking situations, strategies and expressions with respect to use, politeness orientation and specificities. A division is further made between thanks, appreciation and gratitude. The aim of the article is to present the English patterns of speech acts of thanking in context-dependent speech situations and the challenges to learners when being exposed to input settings similar to the linguistic reality of the target community. The paper also dwells on the disparities and inaccuracies which may occur between the learners’ native pragmatic knowledge and the expressions of gratitude which are most likely to be uttered by native speakers of English.
Keywords: context, gratitude, politeness, pragmatics, thanks
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