An analysis is offered of the lexico-grammatical encoding of gratitude expressions in 40 US PhD dissertation acknowledgements. The goal is to partly describe the semantic-syntactic patterns of an academic genre and the pragmalinguistic resources of the written speech act of thanking.
Exploring the grammar of gratitude. Expressing thanks in PhD dissertation acknowledgements
GESUATO, SARA
2015
Abstract
An analysis is offered of the lexico-grammatical encoding of gratitude expressions in 40 US PhD dissertation acknowledgements. The goal is to partly describe the semantic-syntactic patterns of an academic genre and the pragmalinguistic resources of the written speech act of thanking.
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