Politeness Strategies of Chinese in A Talk Show “If You Are The One”
Table 2:
| Sub-strategies of negative politeness | Location of utterance | Total number/ frequency (%) |
| Being conventionally indirect | Ln 17-18, T1; Ln 64-65, T1; Ln 214-224, T3 | 3 (27.25%) |
| Questioning/hedging | Ln 50-55, T1; Ln 60-63, T1; Ln 58-62, T2;Ln 165-168, T2; Ln 574-577, T3; | 5 (45.5%) |
| Apologizing | Ln 99-103, T2; Ln 203-220, T2; Ln 289-292, T3 | 3 (27.25%) |
| Total: 3 | 11 (100%) | |