caa a22 4500 388067055 CHVBK 20180307125136.0 cr unu---uuuuu 161130e199909 xx s 000 0 eng 10.1017/S0959269500004701 doi S0959269500004701 pii (NATIONALLICENCE)cambridge-10.1017/S0959269500004701 Peeters Bert School of English & European Languages & Literatures, University of Tasmania, GPO Box 252-82, Hobart TAS 7001, Australia Bert.Peeters@utas.edu.au ‘Salut! Ça va? Vous avez passé un bon weekend?' [Elektronische Daten] [Bert Peeters] Using Wierzbicka's natural semantic metalanguage, this paper sets out to show the pragmatic differences between ‘health enquiries' and ‘weekend routines' in French and (Australian) English. In French, except in rare cases, ‘health enquiries' and ‘weekend routines' must be introduced by means of a greeting of some sort. In (Australian) English, they may take the place of conventional greeting behaviour. Phaticity in the case of the English phrases is considerably higher than in the case of the French phrases, which, in the context of an intercultural encounter, may result in pragmalinguistic and/or sociopragmatic failure. Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1999 Journal of French Language Studies Cambridge University Press 9/2(1999-09), 239-257 0959-2695 9:2<239 1999 9 JFL https://doi.org/10.1017/S0959269500004701 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1017/S0959269500004701 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Peeters Bert School of English & European Languages & Literatures, University of Tasmania, GPO Box 252-82, Hobart TAS 7001, Australia Bert.Peeters@utas.edu.au NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Journal of French Language Studies Cambridge University Press 9/2(1999-09), 239-257 0959-2695 9:2<239 1999 9 JFL CC0 http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0 nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-cambridge