See Also
- Politeness
- Speech act
- Face
- Complimentary language and gender
- Cooperative principle
- Gricean maxims
- Erving Goffman
- Stephen C. Levinson
- Face (social concept)
- Face saving
- Facework
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“For the gods, though slow to see, see well, whenever a man casting aside worship turns folly.”
—Sophocles (497–406/5 B.C.)
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