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    Redressive Language Politeness Strategy At our Group meeting in March, XYZ’s leadership team outlined our strategy to become the world’s leading international air cargo company. (line 2-3) Positive, Intensify interest to hearer This means we have to become a company that is easier for our customers to do business with and where it is easier for you to work. (line 4-5) Positive, Give reason We, our (line 4) Positive, Use in-group identity markers For all of XYZ’s many strengths as an organization

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    Politeness is able to show a person’s feelings towards others and awareness of a social custom. There are many purposes of politeness including: creating a public self image, creating solidarity, threatening people to send a negative message, not threatening people or upsetting them, indicating social relationship, showing awareness of social context, and power dynamics. The value of polite speech in a culture has the purpose of creating solidarity. Polite speech in a specific culture is very important

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    Politeness Politeness is the practice of good manners or etiquette in communication or behaviour. In our conversation, we practiced positive politeness. It is defined as to establish a positive relationship between parties by respecting a person's need to be liked and understood. It could be seen by attending to one’s wants or needs. Krushka asked me if I wanted to get together. She asked me first instead of inviting me to come for the movie. Next was by being optimistic when I asked could I bring

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    Negative politeness, on the other hand, is shown when a person wants to avoid intrusion, defer to someone by giving a superior form of address such as sir, apologize for something wrong she has done. Having the definition of politeness and the intended purpose of the study, the first thing to be done is to examine the particular organization of the text, the use of a particular

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    3.Euphemism and two pragmatic theories Euphemism is widely used in the business activities. By introducing the two pragmatic theories that people unconsciously follow when they are doing business activities, we can learn more about why businessman choose euphemisms rather than express directly in business letters. 3.1 Euphemism and the Politeness Principle ( the PP ) t[]he Politeness Principle, proposed by Leech, G. in his book Principle of Pragmatics (1983), is considered as an important principle

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    Is chivalrous door-holding behavior vanishing over time? Coming from another generation, and being raised with old fashioned values, in a rural area where it is accustomed, to hold the door for the person following you. Out of courtesy, you will wait by the door, even when this means that you must wait for a bit. I’m curious how Generation Z, the current students of ASU behave when it comes to door holding behavior. Are my values old fashioned still common in these modern times, or did politeness’s

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    As we all know, language is a very important role in our daily life and everyone on the planet uses a language. Language is used in so many ways. It is assigned to every country, and usually every country has its own language which is very unique. Whether one speaks or not, a language is still used, either verbal or sign language is used. Now to note here, language is not used in the same form by gender. Gender takes a huge role on language. Pronunciation and grammar are tended to be used very differently

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    While walking down the street passing by people, talking with others, the words they use are pretty harsh, I wonder what the people they talk with think; do they think that this person needs to learn manners. On the other hand, going into a restaurant, with people holding the door and hearing people say thank you and your welcome makes you feel like people care for you. In my opinion, society needs more etiquette because without manners our world would have stress. According to the article, “Are

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    his IQ, he has a very low EQ and is sometimes very impolite. This essay will have a closer look at the speech behavior of three main characters and analyze to which extent they act polite or impolite. This paper will argue that the receiving of politeness and impoliteness changes due to power. In the first Season Walter O’Bryan is introduced with a scene where he breaks up with his girlfriend. She is upset not only by the words Walter says but also that he scheduled their breakup on his job

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    usually instead of saying “no thank you” you will hear, “nah I’m good.” It takes less work to interact with one another because of technology and I believe that the traditional manners are just outdated and we humans made different ways to show politeness. On the other hand, some people are too into their phones, laptops, and videos games that they don’t bother using manners in public and that, to me, is a big issue. There are videos, games, and other things online that give people and kids the wrong

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