This research focuses on identifying the impoliteness strategies and explaining purposes of most frequently used strategy in Afraid Dark stand-up comedy show performed by Trevor Noah. The data this are Noah’s utterances which contains strategies. analysis was based theory proposed Jonathan Culpeper (1996). result shows that Noah uses 105 instances cover all five types Culpeper; bald record impo...

The purpose of this study was to explore the use different politeness strategies in Pakistani Morning shows and find out highly frequently used strategies. It further explored factors affecting data collected from two morning “The Show” “Ek Nayee Subah with Farah”. Brown Levinson’s (1987) were utterances speakers. frequency using these counted influencing speakers choose analysed. findings reve...

One tactful strategy in political rhetoric is hedging which is associated with vagueness and innuendos. Despite the studies that address hedging in academic discourse and conversation analysis, studies that investigate hedges in relation to political power, face, and politeness are tremendously few. To this aim, four political interviews were selected from CNN and BBC websites on the basis of t...

Impoliteness has recently been of interest to scholars as a linguistic study in the field pragmatics. It emerged opposite orientation politeness strategy, theory and studies. This paper explores how impoliteness strategies mapped out by Jonathan Culpeper (1996) are employed dramatic texts. examines Culpeper’s designed investigate face text. tests through Neil Simon’s Biloxi Blues (1985). comedy...

The therapeutic success of physician-patient interactions depends in large part on how physicians interpret and respond to patients' implicit and explicit messages. Using a hypothetical vignette, in which a patient refuses to comply with a recommended therapeutic regimen, we found that first-year medical students with no classroom training in medical interviewing implicitly recognized that the ...

Politeness may play a role in tutorial interaction, including promoting learner motivation and avoiding negative affect. Politeness theory can account for this as a means of mitigating the face threats arising in tutorial situations. It further provides a way of accounting for differences in politeness in different cultures. Research in social aspects of human-computer interaction predict that ...