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politeness
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Brown and Levinson categorize politeness as either positive politeness or negative politeness and tie both strategies to the importance of face in every culture.
There the conditional cannot be interpreted as a traditional negative politeness strategy, because it does not work as a keeper of distance.
Chapter 8) (the author seems to imply only negative politeness when he employ "politen ess" or "polite" before Chapter 9, where he discusses politeness in detail).
 
 
 
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