Ive heard a lot about you.

Example dialogue of politeness. I want sounds like a demand as if you are commanding the other person to fulfill your desires. Thank you very much. What will Dorothy say about that.

In excerpt 2 for instance a conversation among Joe Mike Monica and Phoebe Joe only produces one politeness strategy namely Positive Comment positive politeness by saying Im glad we had this little talk while Mike produces one politeness strategy namely Appreciation negative politeness by saying and thanks for the wedding night advice and then just left. Where exactly are you from Luciana. Answering the phone in your office.

An organizational force in conversation The overriding force in conversations is politeness which means that there are conventionalized ways of doing all of the speech that we recognize as appropriate and polite. Meeting a friend of a friend for a business lunch. How can I help.

For example it is not polite to say Show me your Identity Card or I want to know your address to someone older superior or to a foreigner we have never met before. I was born in Buenos Aires but Ive been working in the US for. Students have a conversation AND learn vocabulary.

Say hello to people greet people appropriately gain eye contact and smile naturally shake hands or hug where appropriate but say hello especially to colleagues and other people you see every day. Writing a letter of complaint. This is a fun dialouge I have used with my class.

Dialogue between strangers - Sorry. Similar sample can be seen in Excerpt 3 where Booth only uses one politeness. That is because Politeness Principle has a higher regulative role than the Cooperative Principle.