Etiquette greeting forms in russian and kumyk linguistic cultures

Aybatyrova Muslim Abdullaevna, Gadzhiakhmedov Nurmagomed Elderkhanovich

The article considers the general and idioethic features of etiquette forms of greeting in Russian and Kumyk linguistic cultures. Greetings in both linguistic cultures refer to those elements of speech etiquette that are intended mainly to mark social relations established within the framework of a communication act. With the similarity of the communicative behavior of Russians and Kumyks in the greeting situation, some differences are distinguished: a) Russian greetings are distinguished by greater expressiveness than Kumyk ones; b) in the Kumyk language, the most common formulas of greetings are greetings; c) in the Kumyk language there are no equivalents of some Russian stylistically colored forms of greetings.

Keywords:greeting, speech etiquette, questions-greetings, linguoculturology, Kumyk language, Russian language.