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Politeness and impoliteness
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Politeness and impoliteness

Task C - Linguistic indirectness

Linguistic indirectness usually involves using more complex grammatical structures and more vague, abstract or indirect lexis. It is a major way in which we mitigate impoliteness linguistically.

 

 

 

 

 

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