Image threat and invasion. A study on the nature of verbal politeness.
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- José María Gil (ES) Departamento de Filosofía de la Facultad de HumanidadesUniversidad Nacional de Mar del Plata y CONICETFunes 3350Mar del Plata (7600)Argentina
Abstract
According to the foundational work belonging to P. Brown and S. Levinson (1978, 1987), some speech acts (and some non-verbal acts) intrinsically threaten both speaker’s (S) and hearer’s (H) face. In this paper, I shall argue that actually all speech acts, i.e, all utterances, affect both S’s and H’s face. Due to that, we arrive to the following distinction: non-impolite speech acts and impolite speech acts. Non-impolite speech acts, which may involve politeness strategies, threaten both S’ and H’s face. Impolite speech acts directly invade H’s face and, consequently, S’s face too.
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