Linguistics Politeness

Abstract

This research study aims at exploring the role and the effect of linguistic politeness on everyday communications  and to explain the power and effectiveness of linguistic politeness in requesting speech among human beings, especially in cross-cultural communications which affect the linguistic competence of foreign language learners. The first part of the study is the introduction which consists of the objectives of the study and the hypothesis. The second part deals with the past studies which are related to the phenomenon of linguistic politeness. The third part reveals the findings of the study, which show the effects of linguistic politeness on human conversation and the types of  linguistic politeness forms  in different cultures and the conclusions which refer to the importance of including politeness forms in foreign language textbooks.