Table 1 Categories of Words Signaling Politeness as Generated by the Ethnograph 6.0 from IA and IB

Category of words IA IB Total occurrence of the words Categories identified per every 10,000 words
Bald-on imperatives in formulaic entireties, and hedged performatives 629 443 1072 10.72
Compliment of solidarity, terms of address, honorifics 445 726 1171 11.71
Explicit imperatives, contractions, lexical makers, back channels and ellipsis 543 823 1366 13.66
Alerters, attention getters, impositions, and question tags 832 352 1185 11.85
Aggravated forms of directives as in Need/Want statements 646 421 1067 10.67
Epistemic modal forms, prosodic, and kinesic 587 749 1336 13.36
Source: Author’s compilation (2015)