The implications of studying politeness in Spanish-speaking contexts

In the last decades, studies on politeness have discussed central concepts stemming from Brown and Levinson’s work ([1978] 1987), such as face , threats mitigations strategies of . One problems that study presents for analysis a situated corpus speech is use mentioned notions calls socio-cultural perspective. other words, it necessary to include extralinguistic factors in politeness, phenomena beyond sphere linguistics strict terms. this paper, I approach challenge based already done different corpora Spanish. discuss problem using certain (face, threats, politeness) methodological categories interpretation communicative behaviours interactions. my analysis, incorporate, both theoretically methodologically, variation realisations politeness. To achieve this, evaluate social effect interpersonal relations under study, so to, then on, classify those terms impoliteness or neutrality. Also, “autonomy” “affiliation”, void contents. Finally, put forward elements Spanish by making explicit “socio-cultural premises” an analyst make his her interpretations.