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The Use of Thanking Expressions and their Intensifiers from Early Modern to Present Day English

المصدر: مجلة الآداب والعلوم الإنسانية
الناشر: جامعة المنيا - كلية الآداب
المؤلف الرئيسي: El-Mahallawi, Basma Mahmoud Mohamed (Author)
المجلد/العدد: ع86, مج4
محكمة: نعم
الدولة: مصر
التاريخ الميلادي: 2018
الشهر: يناير
الصفحات: 903 - 920
DOI: 10.21608/fjhj.2018.174628
ISSN: 1687-2630
رقم MD: 1279876
نوع المحتوى: بحوث ومقالات
اللغة: الإنجليزية
قواعد المعلومات: AraBase, HumanIndex
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المستخلص: The current research paper carries out a diachronic examination of the illocutionary force indicating devices (i.e. formulaic, routinized expressions) of thanking and their intensifiers across the history of Modern English. The findings of the study have revealed that the routinized expressions of thanking predominantly used in Early Modern, Late Modern, and Present Day English are the IFIDs thank (v.) and thanks (n.). However, starting from the Late Modern period, the speech act of thanking has gradually developed from being explicitly to being implicitly performative, which indicates an increasing trend towards routinization and a partial loss of its illocutionary force due to such routinization. Furthermore, the patterns of use of the intensifiers of thanking across the history of Modern English have revealed a shift from a culture which stresses the differences between social classes in the 16th and 17th centuries to one which emphasizes the importance of democracy and equality starting from the late18th century onwards. For instance, titles of respect have gradually developed from chiefly being markers of aristocracy and authority into mainly being address forms which show respect to the addressees regardless of their social standing, and intensifying adverbials which involve self-deprecation and operate in accordance with Leech's (1983) Maxim of Modesty (e.g. humbly) have gradually fallen out of use in LME and disappeared altogether in PDE.

ISSN: 1687-2630

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