Thanking in Italian

PRACTICAL IDEAS AND RESOURCS

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All the Different Ways You Can Say Thank You in Italian | Blog Post

This article provides information about how to say “thank you” and respond to “thank you” in Italian. It gives learners several phrases that can be used to say “thank you” in formal contexts, and explains how to say that you are deeply grateful for something in Italian. This article also includes information about how to formulate the “thank you-for” construction in Italian, as well as information about how to use three phrases that mean “you’re welcome.” 

ACADEMIC RESOURCES ON APOLOGIZING IN ITALIAN

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Demir, C. & Takkac, M. (2016). Contrastive Pragmatics: Apologies & Thanks in English and Italian. International Journal of English Linguistics. 6. 73. 10.5539/ijel.v6n1p73. 

This study analyzes the differences in the way English and Italian speakers give thanks and apologize, and how this changes depending on the context in which the speech acts are taking place. In this study, researchers used several corpora for English and Italian in order to outline a number of apologizing and thanking strategies and compare their use in both languages. The findings suggest that English and Italian have similar thanking and apologizing strategies, but they differ in terms of their frequency of use.