FACEWORK, THEORIES, STRATEGIES ON POLITENESS

Abstrak

This article analyzes theories of politeness from different point of linguistic view. It discusses comprehensive perspectives on politeness and its theories including, strategies and it is constructed mainly on Brown and Levinsons’ face terms namely, positivity and negativity. Brown and Levinson assume that politeness ought to be conversed and the nonexistence of conversed politeness may be adopted like nonexistence of polite approach. Politeness is regarded a typical basis of divergence from this balanced effectiveness, and is exactly communicated by this divergence. The article aims at explaining politeness and its theories due to their importance in a daily communication.