Zwroty grzecznościowe w prośbach studentów do nauczycieli akademickich oraz nauczycieli akademickich do studentów w korespondencji elektronicznej na wyższej uczelni

Abstract

Electronic correspondence at a university in an asymmetric relation between student – academic teacher, academic teacher – student very often contains various kinds of requests or inquiries, which are directed by students to academic teachers. Compared to students, lecturers are less likely to make requests to students, but the commands and instructions they give tend to take a polite form, based on the word please suggesting an act of request. The aim of this article is to analyze the polite expressions used by students and academic teachers in e-mails addressed to each other containing requests. The research corpus includes 393 examples of student e-mails to faculty and 405 examples of faculty e-mails to students. The examples come from 224 works by third-year full-time and fourth-year part-time students of various technical faculties of the Kielce University of Technology. The authors of the works analyzed in the text were a total of 400 students (152 women and 248 men). The linguistic material was collected in 2016/2017 and 2017/2018.

Keywords

• polite expressions
• polite phrases in requests
• linguistic politeness
• academic daily routine