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reasonably familiar to each other. It typically tries to
minimize
the
difference
between
them
by
demonstrating friendliness and a keen interest in
wanting to follow the address (minimize FTA), i.e.
this technique aims to minimize the danger to the
audience.
Positive politeness is less polite than negative
politeness because the particular face violated by the
FTA is not necessarily corrected. Brown and
Levinson (1978:106) note that good politeness is that
the correction partly meets the desire that one desires,
or that in some ways some of the redresses are close
to the desire of the addressee. Brown and Levinson
(1978), added that the dimension of insincerity in
inflated
expressions
of
consent
or
interest
compensates by implicating that the speaker
genuinely wants a right image to be improved, for
example.
3.2.3 Negative Politeness Brown and Levinson (1978:129) said: "It is a
remedial action directed at the negative face of the
addressee, who needs unimpeded freedom of action
and
consideration
from
the
addresser
and
differentiates between the negative and positive
politeness. The negative politeness is the core of the
respective compartment, just as the heart of ' families'
and 'joking' is positive politeness. In addition, Brown
and Levinson (1978:130) say that the negative
politeness outputs in all forms are used in general for
social “distancing”. Therefore, they are likely to be
used whenever a speaker or a sender wants to put a
social brake on the course of interaction.
3.2.4 Off-record Brown and Levinson (1978:216) noted that for off-
record strategy “the actor leaves it up to the addressee
to decide how to interpret the act”. The off-record
strategy as a communicative act which is done in such
a way that a clear communicative intention cannot be
attributed. In this situation, the actor leaves himself
"out" by giving some defensible interpretations. In
addition, Brown and Levinson (1978:230-232) listed
one of the main strategies of non-recording and its
sub-categories, giving hints, giving association clues,
presupposing,
understating,
overstating,
using
tautologies, using contradictions, being ironic, using
metaphors, and using a rhetorical question. The other
primary technique is unclear or uncertain, and its
subcategories
are
ambiguous,
vague,
over-
generalizing, hearing-displacing and incomplete.