PECULIARITIES OF THE PRAGMATIC CATEGORY OF POLITENESS IMPLEMENTED IN PRE-SEQUENCED ADVICE (DATA OF RUSSIAN AND AMERICAN SOCIO-CULTURES)
The article deals with the peculiarities of implementing politeness as a pragmatic category in pre-sequenced advice, depending on the age of communicators, their social status and relationships between them. The results of investigating Russian and American socio-cultures show that in Russian socio-culture explicit performatives are the most polite if there are offi cial relationships between interlocutors; interrogatives and assertives are the most polite if there are unoffi cial relationships between interlocutors. In American socio-culture when there are null and offi cial relationships between interlocutors, assertives with the modal verbs could and might are the most polite, and when there are unoffi cial relationships between interlocutors assertives in the subjunctive mood are the most polite.
Keywords: contrastive pragmatics, politeness, directive speech acts, pre-sequenced advice, socio-pragmatic factors
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Issue: 10, 2012
Pages: 35 — 39
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