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Politeness is the
practical application of good
manners or
etiquette so as not to
offend others and to put them at ease. It is a
culturally defined phenomenon...
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Polites is the name of two
characters in Gr****
mythology of the
Trojan War, and a
genus of butterflies.
Polites (friend of Odysseus) is a Gr**** warrior...
- Look up
polite in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.
Polite may
refer to:
Politeness Polite (magazine), an
American humor magazine Polite architecture or...
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Politeness theory,
proposed by
Penelope Brown and
Stephen Levinson,
centers on the
notion of
politeness,
construed as
efforts to
redress the affronts...
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Politely! is a 1958
album by
Keely Smith, with
arrangements by
Billy May. The
initial Billboard magazine review from
October 20, 1958
commented that "Miss...
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Pixie Polite is the
stage name of Mark
James Dudley Wickens, a
British drag
performer most
known for
competing on
series 4 of RuPaul's Drag Race UK. Pixie...
- Look up
polite society in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.
Polite society may
refer to: The
upper class (a euphemism)
Polite society, the
etiquette and...
- In
number theory, a
polite number is a
positive integer that can be
written as the sum of two or more
consecutive positive integers. A
positive integer...
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According to
Geoffrey Leech,
there is a
politeness principle with
conversational maxims similar to
those formulated by Paul Grice. He
lists six maxims:...
- A
polite fiction is a
social scenario in
which all parti****nts are
aware of a truth, but
pretend to
believe in some
alternative version of
events to avoid...
