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Apr 3, 2008 at 5:11 PM
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"To tell someone you love them"

                                              __________________________
                                                    I                                          I
                                        say something                              say nothing
                                      "I love you"                                 Kiss them, hug them, give them "the eye"
                                        I                     I
                               on record             hint
                       "I love you"           "I think we were meant for each other."
                               I                 I
                  face saving        bald
                   ???                "You are the love of my life."
                      I                           I
     pos. politeness    neg. politeness
"Let's make-out."            "I think I'm falling for you."

Did I do this right? I couldn't figure out what face saving would be. Also would the actual words, "I love you" work for say something, on record, bald, etc...?
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'On record' and 'face saving' are umbrella terms that include the terms beneath them as constituent parts. So the positive and negative politeness are your face saving utterances. Ditto for 'on record' - "I love you" is a bald, on record utterance. "Let's make-out" and "giving the eye" sound more like telling someone you want to 'love' them than saying you love them.

You do not need anything under face-saving, say something and on the record. I am confused about bald. Is it just directly saying something that you mean without any politeness? I think this is hard especially for negative politeness because negative politeness is a more formal way of telling someone something because do not know them that well or they are of higher status than you and you wouldn't tell these types of people you love them. So I think it would be hard to seperate positive and negative politeness with these two.

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