Politeness and interaction in Ancient Greek: preventing and avoiding dispreferred reactions in the dialogues of Plato

Rodrigo Verano ^[1]
1. [1] Universidad Complutense de Madrid
  
  Universidad Complutense de Madrid
  
  Madrid, España
Localización: Veleia: Revista de prehistoria, historia antigua, arqueología y filología clásicas, ISSN 0213-2095, Nº 39, 2022 (Ejemplar dedicado a: New insights into politeness and impoliteness: studies in Ancient Greek literary dialogues), págs. 209-223
Idioma: inglés
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- Following the descriptive and methodological framework of Conversation Analysis, this paper analyzes the linguistic strategies employed in order to avoid or prevent dispreferred reactions in interaction, and examines their implications in terms of positive and negative face. It focuses especially on the treatment of possible rejections to requests and offers, and on the avoidance of direct disagreement in talk-in-interaction. this is a corpus study based on the dialogues of Plato.