POLITENESS STRATEGIES OF RUSSIAN SCHOOL STUDENTS: QUANTITATIVE APPROACH TO QUALITATIVE DATA

Maria Grabovskaya (), Ekaterina Gridneva () and Andrian Vlakhov ()
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Maria Grabovskaya: National Research University Higher School of Economics
Ekaterina Gridneva: National Research University Higher School of Economics
Andrian Vlakhov: National Research University Higher School of Economics

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Abstract: This study deals with the politeness strategies of speakers of Russian, focusing on verbal expression of politeness. After running a field survey in schools in mid-2018, we try to analyze specific verbal markers of expressing politeness quantitatively. Four such markers were selected for this study, namely greeting, leave-taking, expressing gratitude and apology. Quantitative analysis shows that there is a clear frequency pattern found in these markers’ use, indicating a relatively high degree of sociolinguistic variation. Possible causes of this effect are discussed, including cultural diversity and multilingual setting of the modern Russian school communicative domain

Keywords: Russian; politeness; sociolinguistics; linguistic anthropology; greetings; leave-taking; gratitudes; apology (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: Z (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 17 pages
Date: 2018
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Published in WP BRP Series: Linguistics / LNG, December 2018, pages 1-17

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