Thanking and responding to thanks in American English: Language patterning and contextual appropriateness
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T1 - Thanking and responding to thanks in American English: Language patterning and contextual appropriateness
AU - Barron, Anne
PY - 2022/10
Y1 - 2022/10
N2 - Speech act realisations in textbooks are commonly based on authors’ intuitions. Thus, they frequently do not mirror the conventions of actual language use. The present lesson takes an inductive approach and encourages learners themselves to analyse realizations of expressions of gratitude and responses to expressions of gratitude as they are used in American English. To this aim, the freely available Michigan Corpus of Academic Spoken English (MICASE) is employed. Learners are guided to identify formulaic sequences used to express gratitude in American English (e.g. thanks a lot, thanks for + verb), to observe the contexts of use of different expressions of gratitude and to examine how expressions of gratitude are responded to both verbally and non-verbally in American English.Previous Chapter
AB - Speech act realisations in textbooks are commonly based on authors’ intuitions. Thus, they frequently do not mirror the conventions of actual language use. The present lesson takes an inductive approach and encourages learners themselves to analyse realizations of expressions of gratitude and responses to expressions of gratitude as they are used in American English. To this aim, the freely available Michigan Corpus of Academic Spoken English (MICASE) is employed. Learners are guided to identify formulaic sequences used to express gratitude in American English (e.g. thanks a lot, thanks for + verb), to observe the contexts of use of different expressions of gratitude and to examine how expressions of gratitude are responded to both verbally and non-verbally in American English.Previous Chapter
KW - Language Studies
UR - https://www.taylorfrancis.com/chapters/edit/10.4324/b22833-41/thanking-responding-thanks-american-english-anne-barron?context=ubx&refId=290548b7-1c24-43f0-bf99-e2a077e75c75
U2 - 10.4324/b22833
DO - 10.4324/b22833
M3 - Contributions to collected editions/anthologies
SN - 978-1-032-25299-5
SN - 978-1-032-25297-1
SP - 193
EP - 197
BT - Teaching English with Corpora
A2 - Viana, Vander
PB - Routledge Taylor & Francis Group
CY - London
ER -