One major objection to Brown and Levinson’s politeness theory [Questions and Politeness: Strategies in Social Interaction, Cambridge University Press, 1978, pp. 56–311; Politeness: Some Universals in Language Usage, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1987] raised by Matsumoto [J. Pragmatics 12 (1988) 403; Multilingua 8 (1989) 207; Japanese/Korean Linguistics, vol. 2, Center for the Study of...

We propose a computational framework for identifying linguistic aspects of politeness. Our starting point is a new corpus of requests annotated for politeness, which we use to evaluate aspects of politeness theory and to uncover new interactions between politeness markers and context. These findings guide our construction of a classifier with domain-independent lexical and syntactic features op...

The effort to satisfy someone else’s face wants is referred as a politeness strategy in linguistics. These strategies are used everyday communication. Aside from using daily life dialogues, can also be seen films. object of this study the script short film on Netflix entitled Two Distant Strangers. There three key characters which Carter, Merk, and Perri. This research aims discover types utili...

This study aims to identify and describe the four politeness strategies factors which are proposed by Penelope Brown Stephen C. Levinson as seen in an American movie entitled Freedom Writers. It is qualitative research since focus on analyzing utterances of main character. The data taken from script. There two questions discussed this study: (1) what used Erin Gruwell Writers movie? And (2) inf...

This study examined naturally-occurring university classroom interactions at Iranian universities and provided an analysis of silence patterns as politeness strategies used by male and female students. Since empirical studies of silence in classroom settings are scarce, this paper aimed to explain such phenomena using participant interviews, classroom observation and detailed discourse analysis...