Answer to Question #322930 in English for Mnayi

Question

Briefly discuss these three points with regard to each of 6 forms of address, greetings and gestures

Answer 1

Greeting behavior can vary because of nation, region, venue, age, gender and medium.

Greeting behavior can reflect participants' relations and perceptions of their interlocutor.

Greeting behavior can show affiliation and disaffiliation between interlocutors.

Some greeting forms have the potential to index certain social meanings while others are more neutral.

Pragmatic variation in greeting behavior emerges in interaction.