Fta Case Study

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When performing an FTA directly without any redress at all one is complying with the bald-on-record strategy, which functions in conformity with the Gricean “Maxims” that serve as an “intuitive characterization of conversational principles” (Brown and Levinson 1987: 94) in situations when maximum efficiency of communication is pursued. There are two types of usages of this strategy circulating round Speaker’s desire to “do the FTA with maximum efficiency more than he wants to satisfy H’s face” (bold in original, Brown and Levinson 1987: 95). Firstly, there are cases of non-minimization of threat due to face irrelevance, face ignorance, urgency, communication difficulty, and hearer's interest. Brown and Levinson (1987: 96) provide the following examples of the case of non-minimization of the face threat: (1) Watch out! (2) Listen, I’ve got an idea (3) Accept my thanks. Secondly, there are cases in which bald-on-record usage is oriented toward FTAs. There are three reasons behind the potential FTAs, they are: welcomings, farewells, and offers (Brown and Levinson 1987: 99). This is illustrated in (4) – (7) (1987: 100): (4) Come in, don’t hesistate, im not busy (5) Don’t bother, I’ll clean up. (6) Don’t let me keep you. …show more content…

According to Brown and Levinson (1987: 101), the linguistic realizations of positive politeness are common forms of the normal linguistic behavior between people that interact on habitual basis. Positive politeness can be embrace through functioning of claiming common ground, conveying that speaker and hearer are cooperators, and fulfilling hearer’s wants. These mechanisms constitute a wide range of strategies (illustrated in Figure 2) for the

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