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| 1. What forms of politeness do you use?
a) special words (ex. please, etc.) b) special constructions (ex. could you..., wouldn't be you so kind...) c) both of them 2. How will you ask for something from: a) an unknown person (ex. asking time, way, etc.) b) your close friend (ex. asking help in organizing party, etc.) c) your relatives 3. What does «politeness» mean for you? This survey was uploaded to the web-sites Facebook, American Chat-Room and British Chat-Room. The answer are various though having some ideas in common. The first question: 1. What forms of politeness do you use? a) special words (ex. please, etc) b) special constructions (ex. could you..., wouldn't be you so kind...) c) both of them Having analyzed the responses one can say that 64% of the respondents use special words, 26% — spe- cial constructions and 10% — both special words and constructions. It is shown in Diagram 1. D i a g r a m 1 From this diagram we can see that the Britons and the Americans mostly use special words like please, thank you, you are welcome to express politeness. As for the special constructions the following were pointed out: Could you…, Couldn’t you…, Wouldn’t you…. It is interesting to notice that the use of constructions was stressed mostly by the respondents from Great Britain. It can be assumed that for Britons it is important to use not only one word to show their polite attitude to somebody but the whole constructions. The second question: 2. How will you ask for something from: a) an unknown person (ex. asking time, way, etc.) b) your close friend (ex. asking help in organizing party, etc.) c) your relatives Let us quote some of the answers to this question to illustrate the concept of politeness in English: Sorry, what’s time now? Could you tell me the time? Excuse me, can you show me the way to the near- est shop? I’m sorry, tell me please where I can buy a book. Excuse me, where can I have a snack? In most of the responses the initial word was can, with please also mentioned. 3. What does «politeness» mean for you? Some of the responses can give a good insight into the matter. Almost all the respondents characterized not the word ‘politeness’ bur a polite person. Doing this the British respondents mostly mentioned that a polite person shows consideration, respect for other people; courteous, respectful, considerate and sensitive towards other people; thoughtful of others; Серия «Педагогика». № 2(78)/2015 thinking of others; who is aware of rion was named by more than 50% teristics (39%): A polite person is s people; a person who uses manners characteristics (11%): a polite person Percentagewise it looks as follo The final step in the data proce by 154 people and their responses w In this work a direct cognitive that with this method all the associa in their semantic content are united most stylistically neutral word is cho The following groups of cognit Courteous 58: who says «pleas in a socially correct way 9; Tactful 51: show consideration 1, who is aware of other people 4; Respectful 35: respect for other Friendly 2: pleasant 1, friendly Kind 6: sensitive toward others Reserved 2: calm and cool 1, re Respondents from Russia were 1. Write your immediate associat 2. Describe a polite person. About 50 citizens of Russia Vkontakte, the most popular social n 1. Write your immediate associat sults are presented at Diagram 3. The results suggest that politen person. For the Russians respect is t main characteristic feature of politen The conclusion can be made t others) while Russian politeness is s Peculiarities other people; often use the words «please» and « of the informants). One response contained a rep someone, who says «please» and «thank you» an s, says «please» and «thank you». Only a few r n is reserve), tactful, calm and cool, friendly, kind ows in Diagram 2: essing was their cognitive interpretation. The last were interpreted. e interpretation of associated was employed. It i ates are interpreted including the single ones. As d into an integral cognitive descriptor which is f osen as a name for the formulated cognitive descr tive descriptors became evident: se» and «thank you» 23, who uses manners 7, cou n 12, considerate 11, thoughtful of others 13, think r people 15, respectful 20; y 1; s 5, kind 1. eserved 1. e offered to answer the following questions: tion with the word «politeness». aged 14 to 55 took part in the survey. The s network in Russia. The following results were obt tion with the word «politeness». 47 answers were give ness in the minds of the Russian people is kindnes he background in contrast with the speakers of E ness. that English politeness is oriented to others (dem subject oriented and concentrates on the speaker a common characteristics 50% several characteristics 39% other characteristics 11% жүктеу/скачать 4,99 Mb. Достарыңызбен бөлісу:
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