As revealed by the title, the article is a descriptive study of greeting in French, Albanian and Romanian. Starting from the definition of greeting as a statement expressing an attitude of the speaker towards the behavior or fate of others, the article analyzes the formulating of greetings in these three languages, giving examples of both everyday conversations and congratulations at various holidays (in writing). The analysis highlights both similarities and differences in structural terms, but also in terms of modes and contexts of greetings usage in these three languages. Focusing on the ritual of the act of speech, language-specific basis, the study demonstrates that, in terms of content, greetings reveal cultural values and attitudes of the French, Albanians and Romanians.
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