The Positive Polateness And The Theory Of Politeness

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Politeness is considered as particular ways of performoing the language in a way that is socially appropriate with a great focus on interaction in everyday communication toward other people. Curse (2000) suggests that “ politeness is concerned as linguistic behavior, in which minimize the negative effects of what one says on the feeling of others and maximizing the positive effects, known as negative politeness and positive politeness. Politeness is known as the ability used by the speaker to respect to other people, or in another words to make others feel more comfortable. According to Yule (1996) politeness opens the way of interacting with others as polite behavior within a special culture. Lackoff in Sukarno (2010) claims that politeness …show more content…

It is worth mentioning that the theory of politeness has a close relationship with the concept of face. In theory of politeness face can be considered as an every individual emotional sense of self that every person has in the world and expect every other people to respect and recognize it (Thomas, 1996). As Yule (1996) argues, by referring to the concept of face, it does not mean that facial features of face, but it refers to a public self-image that relates to a social sense of a person in community. It is worth mentioning that someone’s face can be enhanced, maintained, and also damaged by other people. We can classify the notion of face into two main categories, such as positive face and negative …show more content…

Brown and Levinson (1995) proposed a model with a specific classification of three main types of politeness strategy including:
1. Bald on-record:
In this strategy the speaker does not try to perform any action to mitigate the probable threat regarding to the hearer’s face. This kind of strategy is usually used in an urgent situation that is when the information need to be shared quickly, and also in friendly situations. For example when the speaker tells her sister “do the dishes, it’s your turn”.
2. Positive politeness :
In this strategy the speaker tries to mitigate or soften the probable threat or the degree of imposition upon the hearer by using variety of mitigation devices and other expressions in order to provide a friendly situations to make the hearer feel comfortable. For example when the speaker says “hey buddy, I like your sweater, it looks nice on you”.
3. Negative

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