Some Common Linguistic Strategies of Involvement/Intimacy/Interest:
1) Make minimal assumptions about H’s wants
2) Give H the option not to do the act:
3) Minimize threat
4) Apologize
5) Be pessimistic
6) Dissociate S, H from the discourse
7) State a general rule
8) Use family names and titles
9) Be taciturn (i.e. talk very little)
10) Use own language or dialect
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