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    The document outlines positive and negative politeness strategies for communication. [1] Positive strategies include attending to the other person's needs, being optimistic, giving gifts or reasons, including both parties in an activity, joking, presupposing common ground, and seeking agreement. [2] Negative strategies involve apologizing, being indirectly conventional, being pessimistic, impersonalizing speakers and hearers, minimizing impositions, questioning and hedging, stating requests generally, and phrasing requests as from other agents. [3] The strategies provide ways for speakers to be politely direct or indirectly polite in communication.

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    The document outlines positive and negative politeness strategies for communication. [1] Positive strategies include attending to the other person's needs, being optimistic, giving gifts or reasons, including both parties in an activity, joking, presupposing common ground, and seeking agreement. [2] Negative strategies involve apologizing, being indirectly conventional, being pessimistic, impersonalizing speakers and hearers, minimizing impositions, questioning and hedging, stating requests generally, and phrasing requests as from other agents. [3] The strategies provide ways for speakers to be politely direct or indirectly polite in communication.

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    Worksheet For Students Positive and Negative Politeness Strategies

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    The document outlines positive and negative politeness strategies for communication. [1] Positive strategies include attending to the other person's needs, being optimistic, giving gifts or reasons, including both parties in an activity, joking, presupposing common ground, and seeking agreement. [2] Negative strategies involve apologizing, being indirectly conventional, being pessimistic, impersonalizing speakers and hearers, minimizing impositions, questioning and hedging, stating requests generally, and phrasing requests as from other agents. [3] The strategies provide ways for speakers to be politely direct or indirectly polite in communication.

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    Positive politeness strategies

    (H = hearer, S = speaker)

    Attending to H’s needs Help me with this bag, luv? (old lady
    asking)
    Be optimistic
    How about giving me a distinction
    Give gifts (sympathy) to H.
    (70%) in the assignment?
    Give or ask for reasons
    I’m really sorry to hear about …
    Include both S and H in the activity
    I’m sure you won’t mind if …
    Joking
    Let’s go for a drink next week.
    Presupposing common ground
    The weather is wonderful, is not it?
    Seeking agreement/ avoiding
    Why not go to the seashore?
    disagreement.
    You must be hungry …

    Negative politeness strategies

    Apologize Could you please pass the salt?


    Be conventionally indirect I am sorry to bother you but …
    Be pessimistic I am surprised at your failure to reply.
    Go on record as incurring debt or as I just dropped by for a second to ask
    not indebting H. …
    Impersonalize S and H I rather think you shouldn’t do that.
    Minimize the imposition I’d be eternally grateful if you could.
    Nominalize It appears that we may have to …
    Question, hedge Passengers will refrain from smoking.
    State the FTA as a general rule. You don’t have any envelopes, do
    you?
    Phrase the FTA as if the agent were other than S and the addressee were other
    than H

    Do this for me.

    It looks to me like a wonderful piece of art.

    I would appreciate it if you finished this


    project this week.

    This is unacceptable. One shouldn´t do


    things like that.

    We feel obligated to inform you that your


    application has not been successful.

    We cannot help you.

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