The current study investigates whether the variables of power, distance, and imposition can correlate with politeness by examining speech rate in Spanish offers. The hypothesis is that slower speech rates occur in more face-threatening situations. Participants, 34 native Spanish speakers, completed a contextualized sentence-reading task where they read aloud 8 paragraph-length contextualizing situations followed by an offer and repeated it three times across three blocks. The situations were balanced for two levels of power (high/low), distance (high/low), and imposition (high/low). The analysis of 762 offers focused on the syllable duration of the target sentences. A linear mixed-effect model analysis was conducted in R to observe the effect of the contextual variables on the use of speech rate. Results showed that distance and imposition significantly influenced syllable duration, while power did not. The overall results indicate that speakers produced a slower speech rate when the interlocutors did not know each other as well as when the speakers offered to do something that was of high cost to accomplish for themselves.