... types of face, they can be lost, threatened, damaged, or maintained, and 9 elevated. Brown and Levinson also claim that certain speech acts are inherently face-threatening, i.e. they may threaten ... and Vietnamese. After selecting and classifying the data into categories that are set in the outline, we described, analyzed and made a contrastive analysis to clarify the similarities and differences ... syntactic features of CEs are realized in English and Vietnamese. We have described and analysed the syntactic features of CEs in terms of the Clause Type (consists of declarative, imperative,...