Dynamics of English gratitude expression: a corpus-assisted analysis of UK government COVID-19 briefings

With a focus on politicians’ and medical experts’ gratitude expressions in UK government COVID-19 briefings, this research describes how perspective and intensity were modulated in expressing gratitude to realise different pragmatic intentions. This corpus-assisted analysis finds that retrospective...

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Main Authors: Jilan Wei, M. Lynne Murphy
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Cambridge University Press 2024-12-01
Series:Language and Cognition
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Online Access:https://www.cambridge.org/core/product/identifier/S1866980824000255/type/journal_article
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