RATE OF IMPOSITION AS THE MAIN FACTOR OF INFLUENCING POLITENESS
Ключевые слова:
politeness principle, Gricean maxims, Brown Levinson‘s theory of politeness, Lakoff‘s pragmatic competence, a face-threatening act, Leech‘s theory of politeness, a universal Model Person, Leech‘s central model of PPАннотация
Linguistic politeness has occupied a central place in the social study of language; even it
has been the subject of intensive debate in sociolinguistics and pragmatics. A lot of linguistic scholars have
carried out studies on linguistic politeness in a wide range of cultures. As a result, several theories have
been proposed on linguistic politeness and have been established as scholarly concept. The major aim of this
paper is to review the literature on linguistic politeness as a technical term. It will present some of the most
widely used models of linguistic politeness in literature. It also tries to gloss the basic tenets of different
theoretical approaches, the distinctive features of one theory versus another. There are some concepts of
politeness that will become the subject of discussion of this article. These concepts are proposed by Robin
Lakoff, Penelope Brown and Steven Levinson Geoffrey Leech.
