Abstract
The article is devoted to the comparative analyses of politeness in Russian and German linguistic cultures. Ethnic and cultural peculiarity of politeness, defined as communicative category, is revealed on the basis of associative experiment research, conducted with participation of Russian and German respondents. In the analyzed ethnic societies we have established common and nationally specific strategies of positive and negative politeness. We have come to the conclusion that studying strategies characteristics of ethnic and cultural politeness, comprising obligatory component of cross-cultural competence and providing opportunity for cooperative, conflict free communication between different linguistic cultures’ representatives is perspective. DOI: 10.5901/mjss.2015.v6n3s2p497
Highlights
At present the fact, that people speaking different languages and belonging to different cultures perceive reality in different ways, is generally recognized
As well as the norm itself, politeness defining normative behavior in communication, changes according to time and territory-cultural pertain
When considering the problem of politeness in cross-cultural aspect we should proceed from the point, that politeness understanding in different cultures is different
Summary
That people speaking different languages and belonging to different cultures perceive reality in different ways, is generally recognized. As a result of cross-cultural contacts expansion the representatives of different ethnic cultures are increasingly involved in communication. In this view the language knowledge alongside with that of national and cultural peculiarity of verbal and non-verbal communication and of ethnic norms, first of all those of politeness become defining conditions for cross-cultural communication efficiency. Despite quite frequent reference to this phenomenon by linguists in the context of their research there is still no common opinion about the nature of the analyzed phenomenon, which is defined as a concept, category or strategy
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