Brown and Levinson introduced five politeness strategies the speakers may choose from and which will determine whether or not they will be threatening the face of their interlocutors. These include the bald on-record face-threatening act, positive politeness, negative politeness, off-record politeness, and not using the face-threatening act at all.
John R. Searle classified the speech acts into five, namely, assertives, directives, commissives, expressives, and declarations.Assertives refer to utterances that…
We are doing something when we say something. Some examples of speech acts include complimenting, refusing, giving excuses, asking for…
Communication has different contexts. These are intrapersonal, interpersonal, public, mass, and intercultural. Each context varies from the rest in so many different ways.