According to Geoffrey Leech, there is a politeness principle with conversational maxims similar to those formulated by Paul Grice. He lists six maxims: tact, generosity, approbation, modesty, …

Gu believed that there are basically four aspects of Chinese conception of politeness (we call in Chinese limao): respectfulness, modesty, attitudinal warmth, and refinement. Respectfulness …

Leech (1983) claims that the Politeness Principle (PP) may be viewed as a necessary complement to the CP, helping to maintain friendly relations and enabling the interlocutors to …

This readable book presents a new general theoretical understanding of politeness. It offers an account of a wide range of politeness phenomena in English, illustrated by hundreds of …

In this respect, there is a major difference with the cooperative principle which is based on the assumption that all four maxims of information exchange are observed simultaneously. This is …

Politeness comprises linguistic and non-linguistic behavior through which people indicate that they take others’ feelings of how they should be treated into account.

This chapter presents the book’s model of politeness concisely but fairly completely, defining the Gricean concept of maxim, which has been a prominent part of Leech’s framework, as a goal …