social distance
a degree of familiarity or closeness between
the speaker and the hearer
socialization
or enculturation -- a complex and ongoing process whereby an individual
acquires social
skills and learns the norms, attitudes, values, and behavior
that are needed to participate within
a particular culture
socio-cultural
competence
knowledge, skills, and functional abilities that are associated with values,
beliefs, norms, and behavior of a particular society and
in the context of
daily communication and social interaction, i.e., knowing how
to speak
and behave appropriately
speech acts
conventionalized, frequently repeated, and
routinized expressions,
classified by their communicative and pragmatic functions, such as
requests,
apologies, compliments,
or complaints
