Internal and External Intensification of the Strategies Used for Expressing Explicit Emotional Gratitude in Macedonian and English

Neshkovska, Silvana (2015) Internal and External Intensification of the Strategies Used for Expressing Explicit Emotional Gratitude in Macedonian and English. International Journal of Scientific and Research Publications, 5 (10). ISSN 2250-3153

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Abstract

Abstract - This paper deals with the strategies used for
expressing explicit emotional gratitude (SEEEG) in
Macedonian (fala and blagodaram) and English (thanks and
thank you). More precisely, it investigates the process of
intensification of SEEEG with internal and external intensifiers
which affect both the syntactic and pragmatic structures of
these expressions, respectively. The intensification of SEEEG
is analyzed in the context of expressing gratitude for favors in
particular.
The study is based on a DCT questionnaire, which depicts
various situations in which the respondents are prompted to
express gratitude for favors. What distinguishes the selected
situations one from another is the types of favor which vary
according to three parameters: size (minor vs. major favor),
status (potential vs. realized) and initiator (speaker-initiated vs.
interlocutor-initiated favors).
The study reveals that, in both Macedonian and English,
the structure of SEEEG, i.e. the number of internal and
external intensifiers, is heavily dependent on the type of favor
the speaker is thanking for. In the case of minor already
realized favors which were initiated by the speaker, the process
of intensification of SEEEG is very mild or non-existent;
whereas, in the case of huge favors, irrespective of whether
they are realized or potential, and whether they are speaker or
interlocutor-initiated, the structure of SEEEG is manifestly
modified and extended with different internal and external
intensifiers.
Index terms: explicit emotional gratitude, external and
internal intensifiers

Item Type:	Article
Subjects:	Scientific Fields (Frascati) > Humanities > Languages and literature
Divisions:	Faculty of Education
Depositing User:	Prof. d-r Silvana Neskovska
Date Deposited:	09 Sep 2020 10:32
Last Modified:	09 Sep 2020 10:32
URI:	https://eprints.uklo.edu.mk/id/eprint/5687

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