ON THE CO-CONSTITUTIVE NATURE OF POLITENESS IMPLICATURE AND ITS REFLECTION IN FORMAL INTERVIEWS

Abstract

The paper analyses the nature of politeness implicature in formal interviews. Politeness implicature is a comparatively new concept in the field of pragmatics. Notably, politeness arises by virtue of implying something from the interaction of participants in particular contexts to maintain desired social relationships. Overall, the analysis carried out reveal the co-constitutive nature of politeness implicature, the ways of its manifestation, as well as the lexical, syntactic means which trigger politeness implicatures in official interviews.