RUDN Journal of Language Studies, Semiotics and Semantics

Вестник Российского университета дружбы народов. Серия: Теория языка. Семиотика. Семантика

2313-22992411-1236

Peoples’ Friendship University of Russia named after Patrice Lumumba (RUDN University)

21767

10.22363/2313-2299-2019-10-2-532-543

PRAGMALINGUISTICS

ПРАГМАЛИНГВИСТИКА

Research Article

ADDRESS FORM AS A REFLECTION OF ETHNO-CULTURAL STYLE OF COMMUNICATION (based on British and Canadian English)

ФОРМА ОБРАЩЕНИЯ КАК ОТРАЖЕНИЕ ЭТНОКУЛЬТУРНОГО СТИЛЯ КОММУНИКАЦИИ (на материале британского и канадского вариантов английского языка)

Yuryeva

Yulia B.

Юрьева

Ю. Б.

PhD student of the Department of Foreign Languages, RUDN University

аспирант кафедры иностранных языков филологического факультета РУДН

yuryeva-yub@rudn.ru

Peoples’ Friendship University of Russia (RUDN University)Российский университет дружбы народов

15122019

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VOL 10, NO2 (2019)

ТОМ 10, №2 (2019)

53254320092019

2019

Yuryeva Y.B.

Юрьева Ю.Б.

https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0

https://journals.rudn.ru/semiotics-semantics/article/view/21767

Culture and the process of communication are interrelated, since culture not only indicates between which members of the society a communication act is possible, but also helps to decode correctly the meaning of the message that was encoded, and also according to what conditions the message would be correctly interpreted by the interlocutor. The historically established ethno-cultural style of communication (T. Larina) reflects the communicative peculiarities of people’s behavior when choosing verbal and non-verbal means in the process of communication. The article is devoted to sociocultural features that influence the choice of language means for expressing an initial speech formula. The aim of our research is to examine address forms in the boundaries of one language but in two different countries (Canada, Great Britain) with their historical and cultural background. We draw on Cultural Dimensions of G. Hofstede (1991), the Theory of Politeness (Brown & Levinson 1987, Leech 2014), the background of Intercultural Pragmatics (A. Wierzbicka 2003, I. Kecskes 2014), Speech Accommodation Theory (Giles 1977) and etc. The article presents the results of the study on the usage of address forms among the representatives of British English (BrE) and Canadian English (CanE) in order to identify similarities and differences and to explain the results according to cultural characteristics.

Культура и процесс коммуникации неразделимы, так как культура не только указывает, между какими членами общества возможен процесс коммуникации, но и помогает правильно распознать значение сообщения, которое было закодировано, а также при каких условиях данное сообщение будет правильно интерпретировано собеседником. Сложившийся исторически, этнокультурный стиль коммуникации (Т.В. Ларина) отражает коммуникативные особенности поведения народа при выборе вербальных и невербальных средств в процессе коммуникации. Статья посвящена социокультурным особенностям, которые влияют на выбор языковых средств при выражении инициальной речевой формулы. Целью нашего исследования было изучение форм обращения в рамках одного языка, но в двух разных странах (Канада, Великобритания) с их историческим и культурным прошлым. Мы основываемся на параметрах измерения культур Г. Хофштеда (1991), теории вежливости (Браун & Левинсон 1987, Лич 2014), основах межкультурной прагматики (А. Вежбицкая 2003, И. Кечкеш 2014), теории речевой аккомодации (Х. Гайлс). В статье представлены результаты исследования употребления форм обращения среди представителей британской и канадской культур с целью выявления сходств и различий и объяснение результатов через особенности культур.

initial speech formulaaddress formsCanadian EnglishBritish Englishintercultural communication

инициальная речевая формулаформа обращенияканадский вариант английского языкабританский вариант английского языкамежкультурная коммуникация

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