Good morning, China! – czyli o dzień dobry po chińsku oraz o niektórych formach adresatywnych

The article is dedicated to some greeting formulae and some address forms in contempo-rary Chinese (more precisely Mandarin) language. It discusses general rules of grammatical and lexical system as well as pragmatics and language politeness both in official and unoffi-cial speech. The text is partly of a comparative character (it presents how different expres-sions function within Polish and Chinese communication). It also underlines the glottodi-dactic aspect, which, in this case, refers to teaching not only a foreign language but also a foreign culture.