Abstrakt: | The purpose of the article is to concentrate on the phenomenon of small talk.
It attempts to analyze the functions of small talk, the attitudes to small talk and the
circumstances which either favour or impede the occurrence of small talk, such as
formality, the interlocutors, the topics, etc. The study concentrates on the attitude of
Polish, Greek and Spanish female students to the phenomenon of small talk. There
are a number of queries in the form of a questionnaire that the informants were
exposed to. Based on the informants’ responses, the obtained results will determine
the factors which facilitate the occurrence of small talk, the significance of small talk,
the functions it serves and the attitude the informants have towards this allegedly
trivial and flippant phenomenon. |