Early Work

Estonian, Russian Estonian and Anglo-American Politeness Strategies Daria Bahtina, unpublished MA thesis The notion of politeness has attracted extensive attention in the last decades. Theoreticians analyze various instances of communicative acts and create sophisticated networks in order to reveal the norms that govern human behavior. The concepts are constructed and later used to talk about […]

Cross-Cultural Study of Politeness Strategies Daria Bahtina, unpublished BA thesis Human communication faces numerous inaccuracies and misunderstandings due to divergences between different systems. The origin might lie in the fact that the representatives of the groups belong to divergent discourse systems. It is not difficult to imagine why there might be tensions between people with