Realization of Politeness Strategy Mixture - A Case Study

Duong Bach Nhat

Abstract: In communication, it is difficult to find a sharp distinction between the strategies and it is not always easy to decide which politeness strategies (PS) the utterances belong to in many communicative acts including inviting (In.) and declining an invitation (DIn) because one PS may be used for different communicative intentions and one communicative intention may employ more than one PS. In this paper, deriving from Brown and Levinson [1] and Nguyen, Quang s classification [10], we make an attempt to propose a view in PS mixture with some common hybrid politeness strategies (HPS) and combined politeness strategies (CPS) in In and DIn in America (AM) and Vietnam (VN).

Keywords: politeness strategies (PS), mixture, hybrid politeness strategies (HPS), combined politeness strategies