PT - JOURNAL ARTICLE AU - Nováková, Eva TI - "CAN('T) YOU SAY HELLO?" CZECH AND ENGLISH POLITENESS STRATEGIES IN INTERCORP DP - 2022 Jun 1 TA - Bohemica Olomucensia PG - 10--38 VI - 14 IP - 2 AID - 10.5507/bo.2022.018 IS - 1803876X AB - The paper discusses the results of a functional contrastive analysis focusing on the most common greetings in Czech and their English equivalents in the parallel corpus InterCorp. It contrasts forms and functions of polite expressions, examines potential cross-linguistic pragmatic shifts, and ponders on usability of corpus data in the research in politeness.