Bársony, OlgaMajoros, Nóra2013-10-112013-10-112007-04-162013-10-11http://hdl.handle.net/2437/173799”Don’t be so rude, be polite.” This is often the first rule of etiquette that we learn from our mothers. The basics of everyday human interaction are built into us from a very early age. Politeness, according to Gumperz, ” is basic to the production of social order, and a precondition of human cooperation and by nature is reflected in language.” Another definition stands like this:” In being polite a speaker is attempting to create an implicated context (the speaker stands in relation x to the addressee in respect of act y) that matches the one assumed by the addressee.” (Introduction)44enempirical methoddiplomamunkaDEENK Témalista::Nyelvtudomány::Alkalmazott nyelvészet