The conding of linguistic politeness in the academic book review.
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- M. Milagros del Saz Rubio (ES) Universitat de València
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The book review genre fulfils a very important function in today's academic world: to assess the validity of the new studies in a given scientific discipline. Logically, the evaluation of a colleague's work involves criticism-a potentially face-threatening act (ITA)-so that the use of politeness strategies becomes necessary to soften and redress such FTAs. This paper aims to determine the importance of politeness considerations in the writing of a review. In order to achieve their interpersonal goals, reviewers make use of both positive and negative politeness strategies which enable them to establish a harmonious relationship with the reviewee and to minimize the imposition of the FTAs. These strategies are analyzed both at the sentence level and at the discourse level.
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