Polite Speech Habitus as Socio-cultural Regulator of Social Network. ****************************************************************************************** * Miroslav Slowik ****************************************************************************************** Abstrakt The article aims to monitor the functional range of communication and speech based on the language markets in geographically and politically different social configurations. Speech which is part of all human interaction with other people, is a very broad phenomenon, and modularities is the specific area that we call speech courtesy or politeness. Speech polit the characteristics of human behavior in society, and arises from the need to respond to t this society, to relationships between individuals, to social stratification, and to arche of behavior; all of this is then reflected in the language by coded entities that reveal t mobility, as well as in the type of social modalities of linguistic ethnicity. However, th phenomenon that arises as a reaction, reflecting the aforementioned cultural and social fa way; it is also a phenomenon that shapes and maintains the structure of society, its strat the relationships between individuals itself. Speech politeness is thus an immanent part o behavior of man, and one can observe its characteristic aspects, which are either i) commo linguistic communities or ii) different, which then appear as distinctive features of two linguistic formulas. Klíčová slova politeness; regulative function; verbal behavior; evaluative mechanism Pdf ke stažení [ URL "LM-34-version1-slowik.pdf"] Miroslav Slowik [ URL "LM-360.html "]