Abstract:
The aimof the Paper is toinvestigate the characteristic features of verbalization of strategies and tactics of positive politeness in English matrimonial discourse.In accordance with the aim, the following tasks were set:•to analyze majortheories of politeness, namely:the social-norm view; theconversational-maxim view; the face-saving view; and the conversational-contract view;•to define the classification of politeness strategies;•to reveal pragmatic characteristics of dialogical discourse;•to specify means of verbalization of positive politeness strategies in English matrimonial discourse
