EXPRESSING GRATITUDE IN ENGLISH

Деяна Пенева

The book Expressing Gratitude in English (a pragmalinguistic study based on a Bulgarian learners’ corpus) is designed to investigate the communicative act of gratitude in the English language and its manifestations by Bulgarian learners of English outstripping the boundaries of the mainstream functions and awareness on communicative formulae and practices. It addresses pragmalinguistic issues and provides a more detailed information on the theoretical and practical aspects of the speech act of gratitude.