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This section considers different past studies on politeness, noting their strengths and their weaknesses. Topics include: 2.1 Perspectives on Politeness; 2.2 Perspectives on Impoliteness; 2.3 Perspectives on the Concept of Face; 2.4 Conversation as Discourse Type; 2.5 Conversation Analysis; 2.6 Corpus Driven Linguistics