Requests also stimulate extensive use of what Brown and Levinson (1987) call negative politeness: speaker strategies for minimizing (or appearing to minimize) the imposition on the addressee, for example, by being indirect (Would you mind) or apologizing for the imposition (I'm terribly sorry, but) (Lakoff, 1973;Lakoff, 1977;Brown and Levinson, 1978).
the bound- Quartile: 1 st 2 nd 3 rd 4 th Wiki 62% 8% 3% 51% SE 37% 4% 6% 46% ary between somewhat polite and somewhat impolite requests can be blurry.