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Conlangery #94: Face and Politeness

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Are You Ready to Move on to the Politeness Strategy?

Both people in a conversation have negative potential threats to both positive and negative face when these sorts of certain conversations are happening. So if I'm offering an apology, that's threatening my negative face. Uh, if I'm accepting something from you, that's also a threat of negative face,. especially in cultures where that imposes reciprocal expectations. Accepting a gift might be a lot more face threatening than accepting a gift in our culture. We want to just talk about the basic, the four basic politeness strategies.

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