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Spoken features - Coggle Diagram
Spoken features
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Politeness strategies
Politeness markers: words or phrases that express concern for others and serve to minimise threats to face.
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Positive face: our need to maintain self-esteem. Positive face is threatened when we are criticised in any way.
Negative face: our desire to avoid doing something we don’t want to do, such as giving money to a stranger.
Conversational maxims
Violates a maxim: subtle failure of someone to observe a maxim (e.g. going on a bit too long on a topic)
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Convergence
Upward convergence: changing your accent or lexical choices to something you perceive as more prestigious
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