In bocca al lupo! / Hals und Beinbruch! Un’analisi contrastiva delle formule di augurio in tedesco e in italiano

Routine formulae are significant linguistic phenomena in the areas of foreign language teaching and bilingual lexicography. Nevertheless, few contrastive analysis these units exist for German-Italian pair. The aim this paper is a pragmalinguistic ‘wishing formulas’. main criterion contrasting pragmatic value units, i.e. speech acts that can be performed through them, as well situational sociolinguistic features productivity certain syntactic-lexical patterns German Italian. Equivalences differences between groups individual both languages identified.