Bald On Record Brown and Levinson Politeness Theory

20  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? 21 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