CIVILITY IN EUROPEAN LANAGUGES AND RUSSIAN ADDRESS PROBLEM
European languages enjoy a standard system of expressing neutral civility towards a person or several persons represented by a personal pronoun or half-pronoun in the form of substantive, or by the category of address. Russian address differs considerably from other European languages in the way this category functions. While European languages have a stable paradigm supported by tradition, there is no such a tradition in Russian due to the recent social overturn which causes the effect of estrangement by the use of prerevolutionary forms of address [господин/госпожа/дама/господа] imposed on public conscience.