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Semantic and Pragmatic Value of Norwegian Greetings the Last Hundred Years

Rygg, Kristin
Journal article, Peer reviewed
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2017
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Original version
Maal og Minne. 2017, 1 145-172.  
Abstract
this article addresses changes in norwegian greeting rituals during the last

century seen from two viewpoints: First, an article in Maal og Minne

(lundeby 1995) against the answers to a questionnaire on greetings and

address forms conducted by Norwegian Ethnological Research (NEG) in 2008.

Secondly, the claims from the neg corpus are tested against a modern text

corpus with a wider age distribution. using linguistic theories from

semantics and pragmatics, the study finds that, with some exceptions, greetings

with a semantic content related to religious belief, situation, task and

time are replaced by greetings that are similar to primary interjections in that

they no longer carry descriptive meaning. Because of that, they function as

short, quick and context-free greetings to anyone, even to strangers, which

makes it questionable to what degree they increase relational intimacy as

claimed by lundeby. the new greetings are described as empty, superficial

and informal by the neg-informants; the reasons for this, however, are

thought to be their lack of the information, formality and tradition that the

older greetings possess.
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Maal og Minne

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