Politeness Strategies, Principles and Theories: Theoretical Perspective

Abstract

The present study spots the lights on theories of politeness from different linguistic viewpoints. It also deals with comprehensive perspectives on politeness and its theories. The research studies some different models, rules, and strategies. It is constructed mainly on Brown and Levinsons' form of actions of face saving and the dissimilarity between faces in terms of positivity and negativity. Moreover, they assume that politeness ought to be conversed and the nonexistence of conversed politeness may be adopted like nonexistence of polite approach. Politeness is regarded as a typical basis of divergence from this balanced effectiveness, and is exactly communicated by this divergence. As far as the aims of the study is concerned, the research aims at explaining politeness and its theories due to their importance in daily communication; therefore, this topic is selected by the researcher. The present research has reached several conclusions, the most important of which is that ‘politeness’ draws the attention and interest of numerous researchers to implement researches and papers about it since the years of nineteen seventies up to the present as a main focus in fields and domains related to social interaction.