Zdvořilost v posudcích závěrečných vysokoškolských prací

In the article there are described the ways the authors of assessment of the diploma thesis choose politeness strategies to save the addressee´s face. The research was carried at Faculty of Education, Charles University, Prague, where 120 diploma and bachelor thesis assessments were analysed. The most frequent linguistic means that were used by the authors of the assessment were conditional and questions instead of imperative, indirect forms of addressing and using modifying adverbs.