What is confusing is that NSM advocates consider the use of labels like face, politeness, imposition etc. as ethnocentric and untranslatable across languages and cultures.
Yup. For any given natural language, though, you can both derive which primes are behind which exponents and tag exponents with face/politeness labels.
NSM can be used to find out about the constitutes of any specific type of politeness.IN the case of face, culture- specificities can be broadly investigated through this method.Please see Sahragard (2003). … Read more