PLEASE: A POLITENESS FORMULA VIEWED IN A TRANSLATION PERSPECTIVE
Many languages have a marker of politeness such as please associated with the making of a request (e.g. German bitte, French s'il vous plait) Swedish on the other hand does not have a routinised politeness marker corresponding to please. The present paper studies the correspondences of please in Swedish in order to get a closer picture of its different functions in English and its translation correspondences. It is shown on the basis of translations that please is used both