VERBAL EXPRESSION OF POLITENESS IN ENGLISH AND UZBEK: A COMPARATIVE STUDY
Keywords:
Politeness, Brown and Levinson, Uzbek linguistics, Pragmatics, language comparison, speech strategies, social norms, forms of address, culture, language teaching, Cross-cultural communication.Abstract
Сultural lenses, namely politeness norms directly influence verbal strategies. The theory of Brown and Levinson (1987), which is the backbone of politeness, is explored in detail in this paper in contrast with Yo‘ldoshev. The study analyzes how context, power dynamics, and social distance influence the choice between formal and informal language contrasts between English and Uzbek
politeness.
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