La lettera commerciale nello spazio linguistico romanzo: un approccio morfologico e lessico-semantico delle formule di chiusura
Commercial Letters in the Romance Linguistic Area: a Morphological and Lexico-Semantic Approach of Closing Formulae

Summary/Abstract: This paper analyses closing formulae in French, Italian, Portuguese, Romanian and Spanish business letters from a pragmatic, lexical and semantic perspective. Starting from the speech act theory, the paper shows the ways to express request, apology and gratitude in these formulae, with a special focus on the morphological and semantic aspects. Moreover, another aim of this paper is to provide a contrastive approach on these formulae, by highlighting situations of symmetry and asymmetry in the studied languages. Last, but notleast, this approach is of a synchronic nature, as the only references to a diachronic approach are some etymological considerations.

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