Would you trust me please? A formal model of polite requests and relationships
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Politeness strategies are employed cross-linguistically as a means of navigating interactions and negotiating relationships. We model the use of such strategies as kind of trust game where relationships between individuals are expressed in terms of other-regarding preferences. We demonstrate how politeness functions as a kind of currency for efficient social exchange.
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