Do Thi Thu Thuy

EXPRESSING GRATITUDE IN ENGLISH AND VIETNAMESE: A CONTRASTIVE ANALYSIS OF THE SPEECH ACT OF THANKING

This study offers a contrastive analysis of the speech act of thanking in English and Vietnamese, examining it on three planes: semantic content, pragmatic strategy, and cultural motivation. Thanking is treated as an expressive speech act in the sense of Austin (1962) and Searle (1975), through which the speaker convey...