The Gracie and the Conversational Maxims

How much social intimacy and dominance count for things does sort of depend on culture. What a boss is allowed to get away with in terms of especially negative face is quite different from what an employee or a friend is. So you can say things that look like face preserving behavior but might be very aggressive. Things like well, bless her heart, sounds polite but might not be depending on the circumstances. Yeah. And we could do a so, Grace came up with sort of a theory of sort of some of the early work of pragmatics. Yes.