Greeting is an act of communication Communication is a process of transferring information from one entity to another. Communication processes are sign-mediated interactions between at least two agents which share a repertoire of signs and semiotic rules. Communication is commonly defined as "the imparting or interchange of thoughts, opinions, or information by speech, writing, in which human beings (as well as other members of the animal kingdom) intentionally make their presence known to each other, to show attention to, and to suggest a type of relationship or social status In sociology or anthropology, social status is the honor or prestige attached to one's position in society . It may also refer to a rank or position that one holds in a group, for example son or daughter, playmate, pupil, etc between individuals or groups of people coming in contact with each other. While greeting customs Traditions serve to preserve a wide range of culturally significant ideas, specific practices and the various methods used by distinct cultures. The word tradition comes from the Latin traditionem which is the accusative case of traditio which means "handing over, passing on" are highly culture Culture is a term that has different meanings. For example, in 1952, Alfred Kroeber and Clyde Kluckhohn compiled a list of 164 definitions of "culture" in Culture: A Critical Review of Concepts and Definitions. However, the word "culture" is most commonly used in three basic senses:- and situation-specific and may change within a culture depending on social status and relationship, they exist in all known human cultures. Greetings can be expressed both audibly and physically, and often involve a combination of the two. This topic excludes military and ceremonial salutes A salute is a gesture or other action used to display respect. Salutes are primarily associated with armed forces, but other organizations and civil people also use salutes but includes rituals other than gestures A gesture is a form of non-verbal communication in which visible bodily actions communicate particular messages, either in place of speech or together and in parallel with spoken words. Gestures include movement of the hands, face, or other parts of the body. Gestures differ from physical non-verbal communication that does not communicate specific.
Greetings are often, but not always, used just prior to a conversation.
Some epochs and cultures have had very elaborate greeting rituals, e.g., greeting of a king.
Secret societies Secret society is a term used to describe clubs or organisations in which the activities and inner functioning of those societies are concealed from non-members. The society may or may not attempt to conceal its existence. The term usually excludes covert groups, such as intelligence agencies or guerrilla insurgencies, which hide their activities have clandestine greeting rituals that allow members to recognize common membership.
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Written English
By convention, formal letters in English commence with the salutation A salutation is a greeting, in particular a formal greeting used in a letter. Salutations usually take the form "Dear [recipient's given name]". For each style of salutation there is an accompanying style of complimentary close "Dear" followed by the name or title of the recipient. If the name or title of the recipient is unknown, then it is conventional to write "Dear Sir," or "Dear Madam," or where the sex of the recipient is also unknown, "Dear Sir/Madam," or "Dear Sir or Madam" is used. In other forms of written communication (such as fax or email), or in informal messages the salutation is often absent or replaced with a personal variant.
Gestures
Waving- Añjali Mudrā Anjali mudra is a hand gesture which is found throughout Asia. It is used as a sign of respect and a greeting in India and amongst yoga practitioners and adherents of similar traditions
- Bowing Bowing is the act of lowering the torso and head as a social gesture in direction to another person or symbol. It is most prominent in Asian cultures but it is also typical of nobility and aristocracy in many countries and distinctively in Europe. Sometimes the gesture may be limited to lowering the head. It is especially prominent in China, Korea,
- Cheek kissing Cheek kissing is a ritual or social gesture to indicate friendship, perform a greeting, to confer congratulations, to comfort someone, or to show respect. It does not necessarily indicate sexual or romantic interest
- Eskimo kissing The act known as eskimo kissing in modern western culture is loosely based on a traditional Inuit greeting called a kunik
- Fist pound The fist bump is a type of gesture similar in meaning to a handshake or high five. A fist bump also can be a symbol of giving respect. It can be followed by various other hand and body gestures, and may be part of a dap greeting. It is commonly used in baseball as a form of celebration with teammates, and with opposition players at the end of a, in which two individuals touch fists
- High-five The high five is a celebratory hand gesture that occurs when two people simultaneously raise one hand, about head high, and push, slide or slap the flat of their palm and hand against the palm and flat hand of their partner. The originator of the high five is a subject of controversy. In the United States, there is an initiative to celebrate the
- Pressing noses A hongi is a traditional Māori greeting in New Zealand. It is done by pressing one's nose to another person at an encounter
- Handshake Archaeological ruins and ancient texts show that handshaking was practiced in ancient Greece as far back as the 5th century BC; a depiction of two soldiers apparently shaking hands can be found on part of a 5th century BC funerary stele on display in the Pergamon Museum, Berlin and another funerary stele of the 4th century BC depicts Thraseas and
- Hand-kissing Hand-kissing is a ritual of greeting and respect. It is initiated by the person receiving the greeting by holding out her/his hand with the palm facing downward. The person kissing bows towards the offered hand and touches the knuckles with his lips, while lightly holding the offered hand. Note that the lips will not actually touch the hand in
- Hat raising or tipping A hat tip, or doff , is a cultural expression of recognition, respect, gratitude, greeting, or simple salutation and acknowledgement between two persons
- Hug A hug is a form of physical intimacy, not necessarily sexual, that usually involves closing or holding the arms around another person or group of persons. The hug is one of the most common human signs of love and affection, along with kissing. Unlike some other forms of physical intimacy, it is practiced publicly and privately without stigma in
- Kowtow Kowtow is the act of deep respect shown by kneeling and bowing so low as to have one's head touching the ground. An alternative Chinese term is ketou however, the meaning is somewhat altered: kòu originally meant "knock with reverence",[citation needed] whereas kē has the general meaning of "touch upon ".[citation needed]
- Namaste Namaste is a common spoken greeting or salutation used in India and Nepal. It has multi-religious or else common usage where it may simply mean "I bow to you." The word is derived from Sanskrit namas, to bow, give obeisance or reverential salutation, and te, "to you."
- Roman salute The Roman salute is a gesture in which the arm is held out forward straight, with palm down, and fingers touching. In some versions the arm is raised upward at an angle, in others it is held out parallel to the ground. It is a well known symbol of fascism that is commonly perceived to be based on a custom in ancient Rome. However, no Roman text
- Tehniyat
- Waving Gestures are a form of body language or non-verbal communication. Although some gestures, such as the ubiquitous act of pointing, differ little from one place to another, most gestures do not have invariable or universal meanings, having specific connotations only in certain cultures. This page describes examples of the so-called emblems or, the gesture of moving one's hand back and forth
- Wai The Thai greeting referred to as the wai consists of a slight bow, with the palms pressed together in a prayer-like fashion. It is very similar to the Indian Añjali Mudrā/namasté and the Cambodian sampeah. The higher the hands are held in relation to the face and the lower the bow, the more respect or reverence the giver of the wai is showing
Voicemail greetings
Voicemail greetings are pre-recorded messages that are automatically played to callers, when the voicemail system answers the call. Some voicemail Voicemail is a centralized system of managing telephone messages for a large group of people. The term is also used more broadly, to denote any system of conveying voice message, including the answering machine systems allow for different greetings to be played to different callers.
Telephone greetings
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Most languages have alternate greetings to be used over the telephone The telephone , commonly referred to as a phone, is a telecommunications device that transmits and receives sound, most commonly the human voice. Telephones are a point-to-point communication system whose most basic function is to allow two people separated by large distances to talk to one another. It is one of the most common household. In this case, the greeting is meant to confirm whether the person on the other line is present.
The term "greeting" may also refer to a pre-recorded message replayed when the call cannot be answered.
| Country/Language | Owner answers phone | Caller's response |
|---|---|---|
| Brazil | Alô? | Quem está falando? |
| Chinese - Hong Kong | Wei. | |
| France | Allô? Qui est à l'appareil? | |
| Holland | Hallo. | |
| Israel | shalom. | |
| Italy | Pronto. | Chi parla? |
| Japan | Moshi moshi. | |
| Japan | Hai. | Osewa ni natte imasu. |
| Korea | yobosayoh | |
| Mexico | Bueno | ¿Dónde estoy llamando? |
| Russia | Slushayu vas | |
| Spain | Diga | |
| Turkey | Alo? | Kiminle görüşüyorum? |
See also
- Mahalo Mahalo is a Hawaiian word meaning thanks, gratitude, admiration, praise, esteem, regards, respects. According to the Pukui and Elbert Hawaiian Dictionary, it is derived from the Proto-Polynesian masalo
- Aloha Aloha in the Hawaiian language means affection, love, peace, compassion and mercy. Since the middle of the 19th century, it also has come to be used as an English greeting to say goodbye and hello. Currently, it is mostly used in the sense of hello; however, it is used as the above
- Shalom Shalom (Sephardic Hebrew/Israeli Hebrew: Shalom; Ashkenazi Hebrew/Yiddish: Sholem or Shulem) is a Hebrew word meaning peace, completeness, and welfare and can be used idiomatically to mean both hello and goodbye. As it does in English, it can refer to either peace between two entities (especially between man and God or between two countries), or
- Salaam
- Ciao The word ciao is an informal Italian verbal salutation or greeting, meaning either "hello" or "goodbye". Originally from the Venetian language, it was adopted into the Italian language and eventually entered the vocabulary of English and of many other languages around the world. The word is mostly used as "goodbye" or
- Etiquette Etiquette is a code of behavior that delineates expectations for social behavior according to contemporary conventional norms within a society, social class, or group. The French word étiquette, signifying ticket (of admission, etc.) first appeared in English in 1750
- Manners In sociology, manners are the unenforced standards of conduct which demonstrate that a person is proper, polite, and refined. They are like laws in that they codify or set a standard for human behavior, but they are unlike laws in that there is no formal system for punishing transgressions, other than social disapproval. They are a kind of norm
- Parting phrase In English, there are formal and informal ways of saying goodbye. In day-to-day speech, middle-class people also sometimes use foreign parting phrases like Ciao, Arrivederci, Au revoir, Adieu, Auf Wiedersehen, Tschüss, Hasta la vista, Hasta mañana, Sayonara
- Hare Krishna The Hare Krishna mantra, also referred to reverentially as the Maha Mantra , is a sixteen-word Vaishnava mantra which first appeared in the Kali-Santarana Upanishad, and which from the 15th century rose to importance in the Bhakti movement following the teachings of Chaitanya Mahaprabhu
- Paschal greeting The Paschal greeting is an Easter custom among Eastern Orthodox, Oriental Orthodox, and Eastern Catholic Christians, as well as among some Roman Catholic and Protestant Christians. Instead of "hello" or its equivalent, one is to greet another person with "Christ is Risen!", and the response is "Truly, He is Risen"
- Salutation A salutation is a greeting, in particular a formal greeting used in a letter. Salutations usually take the form "Dear [recipient's given name]". For each style of salutation there is an accompanying style of complimentary close
- Salute A salute is a gesture or other action used to display respect. Salutes are primarily associated with armed forces, but other organizations and civil people also use salutes
- Voicemail Voicemail is a centralized system of managing telephone messages for a large group of people. The term is also used more broadly, to denote any system of conveying voice message, including the answering machine
- Tashi Delek Tashi Delek is a Tibetan greeting
- List of greetings
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