# Translating Politeness Across Cultures: Case of Hindi and English

arXiv: https://arxiv.org/abs/2112.01822 · HTML: https://mlsanity.com/paper/2112.01822/

## Key facts

- Cited by 1 papers in the map (data through 14 Oct 2026).
- Builds on 0 of its 14 references that are in the map.
- First posted on arXiv 3 Dec 2021.

## Built on by (most cited first, 1 of 1)

- [Computational Politeness in Natural Language Processing: A Survey](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2407.12814/) (2024)

## Abstract (arXiv)

In this paper, we present a corpus based study of politeness across two languages-English and Hindi. It studies the politeness in a translated parallel corpus of Hindi and English and sees how politeness in a Hindi text is translated into English. We provide a detailed theoretical background in which the comparison is carried out, followed by a brief description of the translated data within this theoretical model. Since politeness may become one of the major reasons of conflict and misunderstanding, it is a very important phenomenon to be studied and understood cross-culturally, particularly for such purposes as machine translation.