title: Interrogatives as a means to express politeness in the danish language
metadata.name: dc.contributor.author
metadata.value: Gurova, Elena
metadata.lang: -
metadata.name: dc.date.accessioned
metadata.value: 2021-02-04T11:40:20Z
metadata.lang: -
metadata.name: dc.date.available
metadata.value: 2021-02-04T11:40:20Z
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metadata.name: dc.date.issued
metadata.value: 2020-06
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metadata.name: dc.identifier.citation
metadata.value: Gurova E. Interrogatives as a means to express politeness in the danish language. Scandinavian Philology, 2020, vol. 18, issue 2, pp. 225–245.
metadata.lang: en_GB
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metadata.value: https://doi.org/10.21638/11701/spbu21.2020.201
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metadata.name: dc.identifier.uri
metadata.value: http://hdl.handle.net/11701/23421
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metadata.name: dc.description.abstract
metadata.value: Despite the change in the Danish communication style caused by the transformation
  of the social-political and cultural life of the Danish in the late 1960s, which made
  a number of polite forms obsolete, the Danish language has various ways to express
  polite requests. One of the most common strategies congruent with the principle of
  politeness and efficiency is the use of conventional interrogative sentences with the
  verbs gide, ville, kunne, verbs in the present tense and a construction er du sød at. The
  article examines these interrogative sentences gleaned from dialogues in contemporary
  Danish television series. The most polite of all the conventional requests are questions
  with vil/ville, which can be used in a formal setting or in correspondence. They appeal
  to the addressee’s willingness to perform an action, to a greater extent than questions
  with kun/kunne, and they are meant to avoid encroaching upon the interlocutor’s freedom.
  The construction er du sød at is classed among the formulas of a high degree of
  politeness and often presupposes a significant status distance between the interlocutors.
  Questions with gide are used when social and status distance between the interlocutors
  is insignificant. Combinations of gide and vil with phasal verbs denoting the ending of
  an action indicate that these constructions perform a prohibitive function. In the case
  of questions in the present tense, the interlocutors, as a rule, are engaged in a common
  activity and the effect of the proposed action is in the interest of both parties. A characteristic feature of the speech act of requests is the use of modal particles, first and
  foremost, ikke and lige. The particle lige is a culture-specific lexical item which indicates
  that the favour done by the listener is insignificant, but in spite of a lesser threat posed
  by the speaker, his expressed will is imposed since it is the speaker who decides for the
  listener how insignificant his request is. The particles godt and nok are used in insistent
  requests, while combinations with bare imply a mutually satisfying way to solve the
  problem at hand.
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.description.sponsorship
metadata.value: With the support from the Russian Foundation for Fundamental Research
  (RFFR), grant No. 19-012-00146.
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.language.iso
metadata.value: en
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.publisher
metadata.value: St Petersburg State University
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.relation.ispartofseries
metadata.value: Scandinavian Philology;Volume 18; Issue 2
metadata.lang: -
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: the Danish language
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: politeness
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: interrogative questions
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: indirect requests
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: communication style
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.title
metadata.value: Interrogatives as a means to express politeness in the danish language
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.type
metadata.value: Article
metadata.lang: en_GB
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