%0 Journal Article %T The Dimension of Politeness in Speech Acts: Three Pioneering Models %J Journal of Garmian University %I زانکۆی گەرمیان %Z 23100087 %A Mahmood, Ayad Hameed %A Ali Murad, Ibrahim Mohammed %D 2018 %\ 12/18/2018 %V %N %P 1-12 %! The Dimension of Politeness in Speech Acts: Three Pioneering Models %K Politeness %K pragmatics %K face threatening act %K Strategies %K speech acts %R 10.24271/GARMIAN.623 %X The research in Politeness has received special momentum since the last few decades.Additionally, theorists and pragmaticians have approached it from different perspectiveslike the social-norm, conversation-maxim, conversation-contact, face-management,discursive (relational work), and others. In this paper, three approaches of politeness arerevisited highlighting their characteristics and their drawbacks. These models are chosento investigate due to their pioneering roles in the domain; they are namely Lakoff’s(1973), Leech’s (1983), and Brown & Levinson’s (1987). The significance of this paperlies in its focus on the pioneering politeness theories- which are solidly grounded inGrice’s Maxims- ,and their approaching fashions in researching politeness. It is worthmentioning that this study is extracted from the literature review of a PhD dissertationinvestigating the Kurdish EFL learners’ interlanguage pragmatics. %U https://jgu.garmian.edu.krd/article_80349_3457128888eb123c34b2b54fe06f3505.pdf