Politeness in Journalese Style

Abstract

”Don’t be so rude, be polite.” This is often the first rule of etiquette that we learn from our mothers. The basics of everyday human interaction are built into us from a very early age. Politeness, according to Gumperz, ” is basic to the production of social order, and a precondition of human cooperation and by nature is reflected in language.” Another definition stands like this:” In being polite a speaker is attempting to create an implicated context (the speaker stands in relation x to the addressee in respect of act y) that matches the one assumed by the addressee.” (Introduction)