Ideas about private space boundaries and tact in Russian communicative culture: results of a sociolinguistic experiment
... describing a national communicative culture.
This study focuses on the tactless question as a typical way of violating private space boundaries. The survey questionnaire was based on interviewee behaviour observations, with one interviewee labelling the interviewer's questions tactless or indecent. It was established that the presence of an immediate addressee and a mass audience sets the parameters for evaluating public statements in terms of their acceptability or face-threatening potential.
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Factors of self-actualization of student youth in the context of cross-cultural interaction and the mastering of a macro-mediator language
... its subjects’ sociological portrait. In this research, the author attempts to experimentally investigate the nature of cross-cultural interaction in mastering a macro-mediator language in the academic discourse. A scenario of the standardized interview has been used as a method of research. The scenario features various factors of personality self-actualization during mastering macro-mediator language. Among many topics discussed during the interviews, there were the following ones: ...
