Positive Politeness Strategies and Factors Influencing Its Use
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Politeness is a controversial term, relevant to linguists in two basic terms. The first is taken from people's ideas about what constitutes polite or disrespectful behavior, and because it is a value-laden and culturally sensitive term. The second is as a technical term that has gained currency in the field of linguistics since the early 1970s to study phenomena, whose...
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