The Role of Regulations and Laws in the Type of Greetings and Goodbyes According To Linguistic and Cultural Contexts

Abstract

The style of writing is sometimes subject to the legal policies of a country or a specific culture, and it consists of rules that, in addition to making the work of the reader and the writer easier to communicate with, also bring beauty to the writing. These rules include two parts: wording and marking. Combining words with each other is the beginning of any writing; Sentences are made from the combination of words, and a clause or paragraph is formed from the combination of several sentences. Each paragraph can be part of a letter or other writing. These rules are more or less true in conversational relationships. The article makes an attempt to consider greetings and farewells as simultaneously linguistic and speech phenomena present in any language within the framework of the theory of speech genres and linguocultural context. Greetings and farewells as part of speech etiquette bear its properties: mandatory usage in a society in relevant situations, functioning for maintaining contact of the communicants, marker of social, interpersonal relationship features and ethno-cultural peculiarities. The paper has both theoretical and practical value presenting the description and analysis of speech genres of greetings and farewells as such, their significance for the discursive and linguoculturological studies. The research is based on the provisions of the theory of speech genres established by M.M. Bakhtin as well as on A. Wierzbicka’s semantic approach for description of various phenomena using Natural Semantic Metalanguage. The models of speech genres of greetings and farewells provided in this paper in the form of a chain of mental acts may give the researchers a tool for revealing ethno-specific features in linguoculturological studies.