Duduţă Ionela - Politeness strategies for redressing face-threatening-acts
(pag. 139-146)
Politeness involves consideration for others, adherence to the rules, but at the same time avoidance of confrontation and conflict. The main purpose of the politeness strategies is to save the public self-image and to mentain an harmonious balance in interactions in which face threatening acts take place. This study focuses on FTAs and on politeness strategies that the german speaker use to avoid giving offense by emphasizing a friendly behaviour (positive politeness) or by showing deference (negative politeness).