Emotive politeness in face-threatening speech acts: cross-cultural perspectives
... supporting moves that aim to mitigate its threat, as well as combinations of these and their conventional features. Contrastive analysis draws on the main provisions of emotive lingua-ecology, cross-cultural pragmatics, the theory of (im)politeness and communicative ethnostyles. Taking into account the fact that each e-mail may have its own features, predetermined by the author’s idiostyle and psychological characteristics, as well as the context of the exchange, we have identified some culture-specific features....
