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Original scientific paper

Linguistic concepts of politeness. A contrastive study between the Macedonian students of German and German native speakers

Biljana Ivannovska ; University of Štip
Gezim Xhaferri ; University of Tetovo


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Abstract

The speaker, in each language situation, must decide which existing, politeness-indicating tools are to be selected. He/she does it by using his/her own knowledge of social relationships and conventions and therefore politeness is a pragmatic phenomenon as well. Hardly anyone doubts that the indirectness is a real phenomenon of the language use. However, how they are to be reconstructed within the framework of a comprehensive theory of grammar and pragmatics is very controversial and largely depends on the underlying theories. In this article, we try to explain how the politeness forms are expressed in the German-Macedonian language pair and which cultural and socio-pragmatic differences exist in these languages.

Keywords

politeness, pragmatics, interim language, German-Macedonian language pair

Hrčak ID:

308757

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/308757

Publication date:

15.7.2019.

Article data in other languages: german

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