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SHS Web Conf.
Volume 69, 2019
The International Scientific and Practical Conference “Current Issues of Linguistics and Didactics: The Interdisciplinary Approach in Humanities and Social Sciences” (CILDIAH-2019)
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| Article Number | 00069 | |
| Number of page(s) | 6 | |
| DOI | https://doi.org/10.1051/shsconf/20196900069 | |
| Published online | 25 October 2019 | |
On the Issue of Polite Appeals and Blessings in Indian English
Philology and Intercultural Communication, Department of German and Romance Philology, Volgograd State University,
100,
Universitetskiy av.,
400062
Volgograd,
Russia
* Corresponding author: kurlena@volsu.ru
The primary purpose of this study is to investigate politeness as the culture-specific phenomenon, the actual manifestations of it in the Indian version of English. The study distinguishes some politeness fixed formulae in Indian English on the basis of the Speech Acts theory. It focuses on such culturally determined politeness patterns in Indian English as appeals and blessings, their functions and language features as compared with the ones in the standard version of British English. The use of polite appeals and blessings in Indian English is greatly influenced by age and gender restrictions and a traditional family structure with a Patrilineal background which has been followed since long ago. The choice of appeals and blessings in social interactions mainly depends on their basic strategies as speech acts. The study shows the points where two different lingua-cultures never meet.
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