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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