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<article xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xmlns:ali="http://www.niso.org/schemas/ali/1.0/" article-type="research-article" dtd-version="1.2" xml:lang="en"><front><journal-meta><journal-id journal-id-type="publisher-id">Russian Journal of Linguistics</journal-id><journal-title-group><journal-title xml:lang="en">Russian Journal of Linguistics</journal-title><trans-title-group xml:lang="ru"><trans-title>Russian Journal of Linguistics</trans-title></trans-title-group></journal-title-group><issn publication-format="print">2687-0088</issn><issn publication-format="electronic">2686-8024</issn><publisher><publisher-name xml:lang="en">Peoples’ Friendship University of Russia named after Patrice Lumumba (RUDN University)</publisher-name></publisher></journal-meta><article-meta><article-id pub-id-type="publisher-id">34227</article-id><article-id pub-id-type="doi">10.22363/2687-0088-33334</article-id><article-id pub-id-type="edn">EJAJSP</article-id><article-categories><subj-group subj-group-type="toc-heading" xml:lang="en"><subject>Articles</subject></subj-group><subj-group subj-group-type="toc-heading" xml:lang="ru"><subject>Статьи</subject></subj-group><subj-group subj-group-type="toc-heading" xml:lang="zh"><subject>Articles</subject></subj-group><subj-group subj-group-type="article-type"><subject>Research Article</subject></subj-group></article-categories><title-group><article-title xml:lang="en">Politeness markers in emails of non-native English speaking university students</article-title><trans-title-group xml:lang="ru"><trans-title>Маркеры вежливости в англоязычных электронных письмах студентов</trans-title></trans-title-group></title-group><contrib-group><contrib contrib-type="author"><contrib-id contrib-id-type="orcid">https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9703-831X</contrib-id><name-alternatives><name xml:lang="en"><surname>Alemi</surname><given-names>Minoo</given-names></name><name xml:lang="ru"><surname>Алеми</surname><given-names>Мину</given-names></name></name-alternatives><bio xml:lang="en"><p>Associate Professor of Applied Linguistics at Islamic Azad University, West Tehran Branch, and a research associate at Sharif University of Technology (SUT), Tehran, Iran. She is associate editor of Applied Pragmatics Journal (John Benjamin). She has published papers in journals such as the Journal of Intercultural Communication Research, The Asia-Pacific Education Researcher, Language and Intercultural Communication, International Journal of Science and Engineering Ethics, among others. She is also the co-editor of Pragmatics Pedagogy in English as an International Language (Routledge, 2020).</p></bio><bio xml:lang="ru"><p>доцент Западно-Тегеранского отделения Исламского университета Азад, научный сотрудник Технологического университета им. Шарифа (Иран). Является научным редактором журнала Applied Pragmatics Journal (издательство John Benjamin). Имеет публикации в журналах Journal of Intercultural Communication Research, The Asia-Pacific Education Researcher, Language and Intercultural Communication, International Journal of Science and Engineering Ethics и др. Также выступала как соредактор монографии Pragmatics Pedagogy in English as an International Language (Routledge, 2020).</p></bio><email>minooalemi2000@yahoo.com</email><xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff1"/></contrib><contrib contrib-type="author"><contrib-id contrib-id-type="orcid">https://orcid.org/0009-0003-5439-616X</contrib-id><name-alternatives><name xml:lang="en"><surname>Maleknia</surname><given-names>Zahra</given-names></name><name xml:lang="ru"><surname>Малекниа</surname><given-names>Захра</given-names></name></name-alternatives><bio xml:lang="en"><p>Ph.D. in Teaching English as a Foreign Language (TEFL). She is a university instructor at Islamic Azad University, West Branch, Tehran, Iran. Her areas of interest focus on teacher identity, teacher professional development, critical pedagogy, English as an international language (EIL), and computer-mediated communication.</p></bio><bio xml:lang="ru"><p>имеет докторскую степень по специальности «Преподавание английского языка как иностранного (TEFL)», преподает в Западно-Тегеранском отделении Исламского Университета Азад, Тегеран, Иран. В сферу ее научных интересов входит исследование идентичности учителя, педагогического профессионального развития, английского языка как иностранного (EIL) и компьютерноопосредованной коммуникации.</p></bio><email>z619_maleknia@yahoo.com</email><xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff1"/></contrib></contrib-group><aff-alternatives id="aff1"><aff><institution xml:lang="en">Islamic Azad University</institution></aff><aff><institution xml:lang="ru">Исламский университет Азад</institution></aff></aff-alternatives><pub-date date-type="pub" iso-8601-date="2023-03-30" publication-format="electronic"><day>30</day><month>03</month><year>2023</year></pub-date><volume>27</volume><issue>1</issue><issue-title xml:lang="en">Identity, Politeness and Discursive Practices  in a Changing World</issue-title><issue-title xml:lang="ru">Идентичность, вежливость и дискурсивные практики  в меняющемся мире</issue-title><fpage>67</fpage><lpage>87</lpage><history><date date-type="received" iso-8601-date="2023-04-03"><day>03</day><month>04</month><year>2023</year></date></history><permissions><copyright-statement xml:lang="en">Copyright ©; 2023, Alemi M., Maleknia Z.</copyright-statement><copyright-statement xml:lang="ru">Copyright ©; 2023, Алеми М., Малекниа З.</copyright-statement><copyright-statement xml:lang="zh">Copyright ©; 2023, Alemi M., Maleknia Z.</copyright-statement><copyright-year>2023</copyright-year><copyright-holder xml:lang="en">Alemi M., Maleknia Z.</copyright-holder><copyright-holder xml:lang="ru">Алеми М., Малекниа З.</copyright-holder><copyright-holder xml:lang="zh">Alemi M., Maleknia Z.</copyright-holder><ali:free_to_read xmlns:ali="http://www.niso.org/schemas/ali/1.0/"/><license><ali:license_ref xmlns:ali="http://www.niso.org/schemas/ali/1.0/">https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0</ali:license_ref></license></permissions><self-uri xlink:href="https://journals.rudn.ru/linguistics/article/view/34227">https://journals.rudn.ru/linguistics/article/view/34227</self-uri><abstract xml:lang="en"><p style="text-align: justify;">The use of computer-mediated communication including emails has become pervasive in academic contexts as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic. What seems to be significant but simply overlooked by students is meeting politeness netiquettes while sending emails. To this end, the current study investigated the extent to which non-native English speaking university students adjust the level of politeness in their response emails written in English to that of the emails received from an American professor. To collect data, four versions of an academic email message with different levels of politeness were prepared in advance. The emails either included or excluded verbal and structural politeness markers and asked for the participants’ demographic information and their reason for participation in the study. Then, 73 university students enrolled in a general English course were selected and divided randomly into four groups each of which received one version of the email message from the professor. The results of the data analysis on the participants’ response emails, based on accommodation theory (Giles 1973) as a theoretical framework, revealed that they did not accommodate either verbal or structural politeness cues in emails. Besides, the participants’ knowledge of the politeness etiquettes in the academic email genre seemed inadequate. Finally, the article provides some pedagogical implications for course designers, materials developers, and instructors to devise some plans to raise students’ awareness of email politeness etiquettes and for students to be aware of the significance of meeting politeness principles in their academic emails.</p></abstract><trans-abstract xml:lang="ru"><p style="text-align: justify;">В результате пандемии COVID-19 компьютерно-опосредованная коммуникация, включая электронную почту, приобрела особую значимость в сфере образования. При этом студенты не придают особого значения использованию в мейлах сетевых этикетных норм вежливости. Данное исследование посвящено анализу того, в какой степени студенты - неносители английского языка - приспосабливаются к уровню вежливости американского преподавателя при ответе на его мейлы. Для сбора данных было заранее подготовлено четыре версии электронных сообщений, в которых запрашивалась информация о демографических данных участников, а также причинах их участия в исследовании и при этом использовались либо не использовались вербальные и структурные маркеры вежливости. Далее было отобрано 73 студента университета, проходящих курс английского языка, каждому из которых была направлена одна из версий электронного сообщения. В результате анализа ответных мейлов студентов, основанного на теории аккомодации (Giles 1973), было выяснено, что студенты не адаптируются к вербальным и невербальным показателям вежливости в мейлах преподавателя. Более того, студенты демонстрируют неадекватное представление об этикетных нормах академического общения в форме мейлов. В результате проведенного исследования авторы формулируют рекомендации разработчикам курсов и преподавателям относительно способов выработки у студентов понимания норм сетевого этикета при написании мейлов и значимости вежливости для достижения их академических целей.</p></trans-abstract><kwd-group xml:lang="en"><kwd>computer-mediated communication</kwd><kwd>email communication</kwd><kwd>politeness markers</kwd><kwd>politeness netiquettes</kwd></kwd-group><kwd-group xml:lang="ru"><kwd>компьютерно-опосредованная коммуникация</kwd><kwd>коммуникация с помощью мейлов</kwd><kwd>маркеры вежливости</kwd><kwd>сетевой этикет вежливости</kwd></kwd-group><funding-group/></article-meta></front><body></body><back><ref-list><ref id="B1"><label>1.</label><mixed-citation>Alemi, Minoo, Niayesh Pazoki Moakhar &amp; Atefe Rezanejad. 2021. A cross-cultural study of condolence strategies in a computer-mediated social network. 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