RT info:eu-repo/semantics/bachelorThesis T1 A discursive analysis of politeness in Love Actually A1 Hernández Bada, Sofía A2 Universidad de Valladolid. Facultad de Filosofía y Letras K1 Politeness K1 Face K1 FTAs K1 Strategy K1 Realization K1 Characterization K1 Cortesía K1 Imagen K1 Acto amenazador (FTAs) K1 Estrategias K1 Realización K1 Caracterización AB This dissertation endeavors to describe politeness theory – depicting its characteristics,defining their strategies and illustrating those with examples – to show the importance politeness has in everyday-life conversations. To this end, Brown and Levinson’s politenesstheory (1987) is used to justify the definition of politeness strategies, providing the initialclassification for the analysis to be done. These theoretical definitions are illustrated withthe examples of speech taken from the script of Love Actually, which provides the communicative acts’ cases. Then, the characterization of the movie’s characters is explained through the different politeness examples found in the analysis so as to highlight the importance of politeness in our communicative performances. YR 2017 FD 2017 LK http://uvadoc.uva.es/handle/10324/25834 UL http://uvadoc.uva.es/handle/10324/25834 LA eng NO Departamento de Filología Inglesa DS UVaDOC RD 05-oct-2024