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In this study my intention is to explore the particular contribution of Moroccan Arabic (MA), and the cultural code associated with it, to the theoretical discourse on politeness. My focus will be on the particular way MA handles central speech acts such as expressing gratitude, invitations and compliments. However, as I will try to show, the ‘unique’ treatment of these speech acts uncovers a new way of viewing the act of communicating and of understanding how human beings are involved in this process. To my understanding, politeness is more than a mere strategy to solve the conflicts inherent to social interactions; it is a way of constructing our identity, and the identities of others, in human terms. The issue of how MA deals with certain speech acts leads us, somehow, to rethink the disciplinary adscription of the theoretical discourse on politeness, removing it from an interactional sociolinguistics frame, where it was initially formulated, into the domain of linguistic anthropology, or, simply anthropology.