greeting in english and vietnamese
GREETINGS IN ENGLISH AND VIETNAMESE: A CONTRASTIVE ANALYSIS
HCMC University of pedagogy
Instructor: Bui Nguyen Khanh Student: Huynh Thi Thanh Chau Class: 4B08
December 30 2011LITERATURE REVIEW
There is widespread evidence that greetings are an important part of the communicative competence necessary for being a member of any speech community. They are often one of the first verbal routines learned by children and certainly one of the first topics introduced in foreign language classes. They are also of great interest to analysts of social interaction, who see them as establishing the conditions for social encounters. It is not surprising, then, to find out that there is a considerable number of ethological, linguistic, sociological, and ethnographic studies of greetings. But despite the attention greetings have received in the social sciences, there is to date no generalized definition of greetings and therefore no systematic way for deciding what qualifies as greetings in a particular speech community. Nonetheless, researchers have felt at ease identifying “greetings” in different languages and providing hypotheses about what greetings “do” for or to people.
By comparing humans with other species and adult-adult interaction with mother – child interaction ( Eibl–Eibesfeldt’s1977, greetings are defined as rituals of appeasing and bonding that counteract potentially aggressive
HCMC University of pedagogy
Instructor: Bui Nguyen Khanh Student: Huynh Thi Thanh Chau Class: 4B08
December 30 2011LITERATURE REVIEW
There is widespread evidence that greetings are an important part of the communicative competence necessary for being a member of any speech community. They are often one of the first verbal routines learned by children and certainly one of the first topics introduced in foreign language classes. They are also of great interest to analysts of social interaction, who see them as establishing the conditions for social encounters. It is not surprising, then, to find out that there is a considerable number of ethological, linguistic, sociological, and ethnographic studies of greetings. But despite the attention greetings have received in the social sciences, there is to date no generalized definition of greetings and therefore no systematic way for deciding what qualifies as greetings in a particular speech community. Nonetheless, researchers have felt at ease identifying “greetings” in different languages and providing hypotheses about what greetings “do” for or to people.
By comparing humans with other species and adult-adult interaction with mother – child interaction ( Eibl–Eibesfeldt’s1977, greetings are defined as rituals of appeasing and bonding that counteract potentially aggressive
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