Bald On Record Brown and Levinson Politeness Theory
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You cut your hair By the way, I came to to borrow some flour. You must be hungry; it’s a long time since breakfast. How about some
lunch?
Strategy 2. Exaggerate interest, approval, sympathy with H
To exaggerated the intonation, stress, and other aspect of prosodic as well as with intensifying modifiers.
What a fantastic garden you have
Strategy 3. Intensify interest to H
Making a good story is the way in this strategy, S is to communicate to H that he shares some of his wants is to intensify the
interest of his own contribution to the conversation. last night, I went to cinema, and you know what? I found my ex dated
with a different girl that I saw last week. How can….
Strategy 4. Use in-group identity markers
In this strategy, S can implicitly claim that the common ground with H that is carried by that definition of the group. These include in group usages of address
forms, of language or dialect, of jargon or slang, and of ellipsis. Here mate, I was keeping this seat for a friend of mine…
Got any Winston? Mind if I smoke?
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Strategy 5. Seek agreement
Another ways to claim a common ground with H are raising the safe topic in order to be agreeing with H opinions; and agreement also stressed with
repetition or repeating what all the preceding speaker said. Isn’t your new car a beautiful color
A: john went to London this weekend B: to London
Strategy 6. Avoid disagreement
In this case, the S must be agree with H in order to main the H’s face. The strategies are token agreement is pretending agree with H; Pseudo-Agreement is
the use of then as a conclusory marker; white lies is where S is confronted with the necessity to state opinion want to lie rather than damage H’s positive face; and
hedging opinions is S may be vague about his opinion in order to not to be seen disagree.
a: can you hear me? b: barely
I’ll meet you in front of the theater just before 8.00, then. Yes, I do like your new hat.
It’s really beautiful, in a way
Strategy 7. Presupposeraiseassert common ground
This strategy have several ways such as gossip or small talk is for softening the request; point of view operations is encoded point of view by mean