Politeness

Politeness relates to the social distance and closeness of an interaction based on social values and culture. There is a difference between acting polite to your family, friends and strangers we meet outside our circle. The social distance of these relationships are determined by the dominance of external factors and internal factors, whether its how friendly you are or not sometimes your way of politeness may or may not be enough to satisfy your speaker. The degree of friendliness is negotiated during an interaction, but because of external factors and internal factors we can be interpreted differently.  According to Yule (1996), "It is possible to treat politeness as a fixed concept, as in the ideas of 'polite social behavior', or etiquette, within a culture" (p. 59). From the term face, which technically means self image, while Yule(1996) says that the term politeness means to show awareness of another person's face, but in actuality I think that it is the basis of your friendliness, culture,  and social factors that contribute to how polite you are to anyone. In short, An eye for an eye, what comes around goes around, or however you want to be treated you should treat others.

Cooperation

When we speak we usually expect to be clear in communicating enough information that we lead the listener to know exactly what we mean and how we mean it, and to actually have an exchange in the conversation the listener must cooperate with what the speaker said. This means that we are using the cooperative principle as stated by Yule (1996), "Make your conversational contribution such as is required, at the stage at which it occurs, by the accepted purpose or direction of the talk exchange in which you engage" (p. 37). Basically, you must make your input have meaning when it's relevant. The cooperative principle is extended to H.P Grice's Maxims which include the following:

Quantity- Make your contribution as formative as required, don't make it more informative than required. People use hedges are used to mark the quantity maxim.

Quality- Try to make your contribution one that is true and don't say what you believe to be false.

Relevance-Be Relevant!

Manner-Avoid obscurity, ambiguity, be brief, be orderly.

To follow these maxims people tend adhere, flout or violate depending on the situation. Flouting means to violate or ignore with communicative intent. Adhering will be to pay attention and follow, and violating will be to have no communicative intent.