Face-threatening acts is acts that essentially infringe on hearer’s face-wants. The relationship between degree of threat and type of strategy used is able to be explained ‘The more threatening an act is, the more polite and indirect are the means used to accomplish it’. Face threat vary in terms of threat involved. First, some threaten hearer’s negative face by imposing on hearer. Second, other face threatening acts intimidate hearer’s positive face by indicating speaker’s lack of concern for hearer’s self-image. Finally, some FTAs are threatening to speaker rather than to hearer by either offending speaker’s need not to be imposed on, or by offending speaker’s need for positive self-image. Three social factors which influence
