The language of hospitality: crossing the threshold between speech act and linguistic form

Abstract

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Measuring language usage in hospitality situations

“…There is not much literature on language and hospitality, and what there is is often focused on language ability or training (cf. Yuan, Houston, & Cai, 2006;Esfehani & Walters, 2018;Ghany & Latif, 2012;Luka, 2018; for an overview of existing literature on hospitality in relation to language, see also Schreurs, 2019).…”