EXPRESSING POLITENESS AND POLITENESS STRATEGIES IN SPOKEN ALBANIAN
Abstract
The present study aims at treating the linguistic devices of politeness in the spoken formal and informal communication of Albanians of Kosovo and Albania as one of the variables that display the changes in the dynamics of Albanian spoken in the two countries. The current research treats formal situations of communication and those less formal ones of linguistic devices of politeness. The research has been conducted using two different measurement. The first one treats two television political debates, one in Kosovo with Kosovar speakers of Albanian, and one in Albania with Albanian speakers. The second measuring treats the informal situation, and for this purpose, a direct observation in the “Albi Mall” (a city mall), specifically in five stores (shoe store, clothing store, and grocery store) in Prishtina has been conducted. In this research, linguistic choices used by the consumers who address the sellers and sellers who address the consumers have been observed.
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