ETIQUETTE IN MODERN ENGLISH: SOCIAL SETTING

Abstract

For the linguist, language seems particularly interesting and valuable: it helps understand the nature of human thoughts; it serves as a principal means of both human communication and maintaining interpersonal relationships; it makes teaching/learning processes possible; it brings humans closer to the achievements and discoveries the world over; it teaches humans to love and value the world they live in as well as people they are surrounded by; it makes humans believe in eternal social and moral standards; it is a tool with the help of which humans can get acquainted with new and never - ending findings in their everyday lives, business activities and cross – cultural communication. For the linguist, language is both the end and means of his/ her study: he/she analyzes the language by using it. Language is usually studied as: 1) a formal system, 2) a human phenomenon and 3) a social phenomenon. It gives grounds for both theoretical and practical applications of linguistics, such as further studies of multilingualism, foreign language teaching, theory and practice of translation, discourse analysis, dictionary compiling, comparative and communicative linguistics, etc.