16
12.
Include both speaker and hearer in
the activity
Let’s get on with dinner, eh?
13.
Give (or ask for) reasons
Why not lend me your cottage for the weekend?
14.
Assume or assert reciprocity
I’ll do X for you if you do Y for me
Fulfill Hearer’s Want For
Some X
15.
Give gifts to hearer (goods,
sympathy, understanding,
cooperation)
Table 2.2 The Positive Politeness Strategy (Brown and Levinson, 1978, pp. 103 – 129)
2.3.5.3
Negative Politeness
Unlike positive politeness strategy that emphasizes on the speaker’s positive
face, the negative politeness strategy is more oriented in redressing the hearer’s negative
face (Brown and Levinson, 1978, p. 70). Brown and Levinson (1978) also added, that
it
means that the speaker wants to maintain his own territory and wants to have the
speaker’s freedom
(p. 70
and p. 129). It means that negative politeness is more to the
point than the positive politeness. Brown and Levinson (1978) also elaborated about the
strategies of negative politeness as on this following table:
No.
Negative Politeness
Strategy
Example
Be Direct
1.
Be conventionally indirect
Can you please pass the salt?
Don’t Presume/Assume
2.
Question, hedge
Won’t you open the door?
Don’t Coerce Hearer
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