This politeness study aimed to investigate the different strategies or face-saving acts of teachers as they engaged in casual conversations. utilized discourse analysis research method identifying face-savings exhibited from samples The researcher analysed linguistic corpora using Brown and Levinsons Politeness Theory. Data showed that interactants observed use positive such as: By intensifying...

Refusals are complex face-threatening speech acts whose appropriate performance requires not only lengthy sequences of negotiation and cooperative achievements, but also face-saving strategies to accommodate the disruptive nature act (Gass & Houck 1999). Also, since they have a face threatening nature, subject cultural variations. Consequently, care must be taken in choice refusal strategie...

Human daily social interaction is anchored in interpersonal discourse, and linguistic politeness thus vital to our everyday language including face-to-face computer-mediated communication. Politeness conventions emails are not being taught students seem be a work-in-progress. In power-asymmetrical context such as student-teacher interaction, requests pragmatically demanding, complex, inherently...

— In this paper we study the optimal saving problem in the framework of possibility theory. The notion of possibilistic precautionary saving is introduced as a measure of the way the presence of possibilistic risk (represented by a fuzzy number) influences a consumer in establishing the level of optimal saving. The notion of prudence of an agent in the face of possibilistic risk is defined and ...