REALIZATION OF NOMINAL FORMULAS OF ADRESS BY NEGATIVE POLITENESS STRATEGIES

Abstract

This article defines politeness as a set of conversational strategies aimed at avoiding or mitigating conflicts that may arise between interlocutors as a result of social factors such as age, social position, sex, gender, hierarchy, levels of education, etc. Thus, politeness should not be understood alone from the level of social norms, but also from the implications that has on the linguistic plane. In any case, when it comes to politeness as a set of conversational strategies we are emphasizing verbal politeness, a term proposed by Brown and Levinson (1978) and based on in concept image.