Ideas about private space boundaries and tact in Russian communicative culture: results of a sociolinguistic experiment
... appropriateness in public communication. The survey results are divided into the following thematic blocks corresponding to communication risk zones: age, family and marriage, religion and sex. The quantitative findings provide information on the social norms intuitively classified by Russian native speakers as preventing intrusion into private space. They also give an insight into the effect of age characteristics on statement evaluations. Informants' responses tend to exhibit ambiguity in assessments,...
