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European ethnic scripts and the translation and switching of jokes

Many European jokes depend on local ethnic scripts that by convention pin a comic characteristic on a particular ethnic group such as the canny Cardi in Wales, the slow Swiss in France, the stupid Belgian incessantly eating freedom fries in the Netherlands...

Keywords: French, Jews, jokes, scripts, Swiss, translation, Welsh

06/2005 | Humor - International Journal of Humor Research, Walter de Gruyter

Aspects of polite behaviour in French and Syrian service encounters: A data-based comparative study

This paper presents a data-based comparative study of polite behaviour in French and Arabic (Syrian) service encounters...

Keywords: ritual acts, conversational routines, French, Arabic, comparative study, service encounter

02/2006 | Journal of Politeness Research. Language, Behaviour, Culture, Walter de Gruyter

Politeness markers in French: post-posed quoi in the Tourist Office

Post-posed quoi is traditionally stigmatized as a meaningless filler or “tic” and considered inappropriate in formal or polite speech...

Keywords: quoi, politeness, French, corpus, camaraderie, hedge

02/2006 | Journal of Politeness Research. Language, Behaviour, Culture, Walter de Gruyter

Getting ‘emotional’ in two languages: Bilinguals' verbal performance of affect in narratives of personal experience

This article explores the cross-linguistic expression of affect by comparing how the same bilingual speaker displays affect in her two languages...

Keywords: emotion, affect, bilingualism, Narrative, French, Portuguese

09/2004 | Text - Interdisciplinary Journal for the Study of Discourse, Walter de Gruyter

The convergent evolution of radial constructions: French and English deictics and existentials

English deictic and existential there-constructions have been analyzed as constituting a single radial category of form?meaning pairings, related through motivated links, such as metaphor (Lakoff 1987)...

Keywords: French, radial categories, constructions, deictics, existentials

02/2005 | Cognitive Linguistics, Walter de Gruyter