Politeness principle,
Like Cooperative principle
Lakoff suggests,
Don’t impose
Give options
Make your receiver feel good
No immediate practical purpose
may be taken or left as the receiver wishes
There is no burden!
But,
literary texts
take up a great deal of time
⇒ burdensome!
Both keep and break the maxim,
‘Don’t impose
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conversational exchange)
4. Confused. (The patient responds to questions coherently but there is some disorientation and confusion.)
5. Oriented. (Patient responds coherently and appropriately to questions such as the patient’s name and age, where they are and why, the year, month, etc.)
Best motor response (M)
There are 6 grades starting with the most severe:
1. No motor response
2
conversation between us
and the cars as we drive. We communicate.
No, did you see that? Thats him warning
me that theres some slow cars up ahead...
...so were gonna have to pass them.
Oh, thats pretty considerate.
Oh, see, now this is what I like to call
a brake pumper.
You think speedings dangerous,
try driving behind this guy.
Okay.
At this speed, Im fine with it.
Just dont go faster.
Oh, right
conversation continues as they make
their way through the corridors of
INT. THE WEST WING - DAY
They walk quickly down a hallway teeming with STAFFERS, AIDES
AND OFFICE WORKERS.
LEWIS
Because you dropped the whole kick-ass
section, now weve got this thing hanging
out there.
SHEPHERD
Theres a thing hanging out there?
LEWIS
"Americans can no longer afford to
pretend that they live in a great