Negative politeness strategies are salient in on-track conversations as well, reflected by the use of hedges (p < 0.01) and opinion prompts (p < 0.05), which may serve to soften impositions or factual contentions (Hübler, 1983).
annotators Conversations Snippets agreement 247 1,252 2,181 87.5% Table 1: Descriptions of crowdsourcing jobs, with relevant statistics.