Justification-prevention of the other’s face-threatening act | justification-repair of the own face-threatening act | |
Prepositional Justification/auxiliary act | Postpositional Justification/auxiliary act | Independent act, Response to face threatening act with directive allocution, |
1. Mitigate the addresser’s face-threatening act of imposition; 2. Minimize the danger of the addressee’s dispreferred act. | Repair/prevent the damage to the addresser’s face | 1. Justify and mitigate the own dispreferred act of refusal/rejection. 2. Save the other’s and the own faces. |
Redress double two-directional face threat with middle strength of justification illocutionary point | Redress one-directional face-threat with minimal strength of justification illocutionary point | Redress double two-directional face-threat with maximum strength of justification illocutionary point |