Emotive politeness in face-threatening speech acts: cross-cultural perspectives
... politeness through the prism of the emotional component of communication. It contributes to the study of emotive politeness, which focuses on the recipient's feelings, in face-threatening acts. The purpose of this study is to identify the means of mitigating refusal through emotional support to the addressee in English and Russian academic digital communication and to trace their culture-specific variability. The material consists of authentic Russian and English emails that contain a refusal to a request ...
