Реализация стратегий позитивной вежливости в разговорном диалоге

The paper discusses positive politeness strategies in Russian conversational dialogues. It is based on Brown and Levinson’s Politeness Theory. Politeness is the expression of the speakers’ intention to mitigate face threats carried by certain face threatening acts toward another. Being polite therefore consists of attempting to save face for another. Positive politeness seeks to establish a relationship between parties; respects a person’s need to be liked, understood and desired. Positive politeness strategies seek to minimize the threat to the hearer’s positive face. They are used to make the hearer feel good about himself, his interests or possessions, and are most usually used in situations where the audience knows each other fairly well. In addition to hedging and attempts to avoid conflict, some strategies of positive politeness include statements of friendship, solidarity, compliments, in-group jargon and slang. We argue that these strategies are culture-specific and are varied in the different societies and cultures.