Question

What the central difference between negative and positive politeness?

Answer 1

Answer:

Negative politeness is often used to make a request seem less infringing as people assess threatening aspects of communication using three components: Social distance, Relative power. Absolute ranking.

Answer 2

Answer:

      Politeness is universal, resulting from people's face needs: Positive face is the desire to be liked, appreciated, approved, etc. Negative face is the desire not to be imposed upon, intruded, or otherwise put upon.

    Positive face refers to one's self-esteem, while negative face refers to one's freedom to act. Participants can do this by using positive politeness and negative politeness, which pay attention to people's positive and negative face needs respectively.

• What are positive face needs?

  One's face need is the sense of social value that is experienced during social interactions. Positive face refers to the need to feel accepted and liked by others while negative face describes the will to do what one wants to do with freedom and independence.

Negative politeness :

  Making a request less infringing, such as "If you don't mind" or "If it isn't too much trouble"; respects a person's right to act freely. In other words, deference. There is a greater use of indirect speech acts.

• What is politeness in discourse analysis?

    In sociolinguistics and conversation analysis (CA), politeness strategies are speech acts that express concern for others and minimize threats to self-esteem ("face") in particular social contexts.

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