Contrastive analysis of wishing formulas in German and Spanish languages Cover Image

Die Wunschformeln: eine kontrastive Analyse zwischen Standardspanischem und -deutschem
Contrastive analysis of wishing formulas in German and Spanish languages

Author(s): Valentina Vivaldi, Juan Pablo Larreta Zulategui
Subject(s): Language and Literature Studies, Phraseology
Published by: Univerzita Karlova v Praze - Filozofická fakulta, Vydavatelství
Keywords: routine formulae; contrastive linguistics; linguistic routines; phraseology; wishing formulas;

Summary/Abstract: Routine formulas are significant linguistic phenomena in the areas of foreign language teaching and bilingual lexicography. Nevertheless, few contrastive works of these units exist for the GermanSpanish language pair. The aim of this paper is a pragmalinguistic contrastive analysis of ‘wishing formulas’. The main criterion of contrasting is the pragmatic value of the units, i.e. the speech acts that can be performed through them, as well as the situational and sociolinguistic features of the formulas and the productivity of certain syntactic-lexical patterns in German and Spanish. Equivalences and differences between groups of formulas as well as between the individual units of both languages are identified.

  • Issue Year: 29/2019
  • Issue No: 1
  • Page Range: 47-66
  • Page Count: 20
  • Language: German