Risinzon S.A. CLASS DIFFERENCES IN POLITENESS OF BUSINESS COMMUNICATION IN LATE XIX – EARLY XX CENTURY
Risinzon Svetlana Alfredovna
Doctor of Philological Sciences, Associate Professor, Department of Foreign Languages and Cross-cultural Communication, Saratov State Technical University ( This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. )
Abstract: this paper studies the use of harmonizing tactics by communicants of the higher and lower classes in business conversations in the late 19th – early 20th century. The study of fiction material showed that there are a) substantial differences in the verbal behavior of different classes of communicants; b) a set of stereotyped etiquette tactics for business communication of the time.
Key words: verbal behavior, politeness, harmonizing tactics, communicants, higher and lower classes, culture.
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