PRAGMATICS AND COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS OF VERBAL GREETING IN HISPANIC WORLD (original) (raw)

The article addresses greetings as one of the most interactional routines in Spanish language and looks at the changes in greetings because of continental differences between Iberian Spanish and Latin American Spanish. It brings awareness in difficulties of taking turns during conversation, maintain a topic of conversation appropriately and respond contingently. At the same time it is important to pay special attention to the needs of paradigmatic relationship in non-verbal communication as the process of meaning conveying words through facial expressions, gestures, para-linguistic. This is a part of communicative competence that involves being able to use language in interpersonal relationships, taking in account such complexities as social distance and indirectness. This article addresses one of the main problems faced by Russian-speaking students who study Spanish language as a second (L2) or third foreign language (L3), that is the use of interactional units in greetings. These units are characterized by their fixation within the sentence depending on the communicative situation and not on the semantics. Many of