Abstract
This paper aims to show that Moroccan males and females do make use of polite speech behavior that cannot be accounted for in Brown & Levinson’s framework of politeness. In other words, such highly expressive speech behavior is different from Brown & Levinson’s politeness strategies in many respects. While such politeness behavior attends to the face wants of the hearer, it cannot be considered as politeness strategies in Brown & Levinson’s sense, but rather as Politeness Formulas. Politeness formulas differ also from strategies with respect to their politeness conversational structure.
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