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Manipuri greetings: significance, role and meaning

Author Affiliations

  • 1Linguistics Department, Manipur University, Pin- 795003, Manipur, India

Res. J. Language and Literature Sci., Volume 8, Issue (1), Pages 1-4, January,19 (2021)

Abstract

Greetings are an important part of everyday interaction. Greetings convey ones desire as well as ones nature of being friendly with his/her environment; it also helps in establishing a relationship between the speaker and his surroundings. The paper aims to analyze the pragmatic functions of Manipuri greetings, their significance and role, thus studying the appropriate usage of some of the common forms of greetings, and the knowledge these expressions provide on the culture.

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