Impoliteness in Arab Talk Shows: A Case Study of Insult in the Opposite Direction

Abdelkawy, Haitham Omar

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Impoliteness in Arab Talk Shows: A Case Study of Insult in the Opposite Direction

Authors:

Abdelkawy, Haitham Omar

Publisher:

جامعة بني سويف - كلية الآداب

Journal:

مجلة كلية الآداب Vol.2019 Issue 50, pp.71-98

Document Type:

Article

Publication Date:

3/2019

Document Language:

English

Document ID (Org No.):

2001095574

pISSN:

2090-9012

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Abstract:

 This study aims at analyzing impoliteness as a sign of impoliteness in Arab television political talk shows. Two episodes of the Opposite Direction, a famous talk show broad-cast on Al-Jazeera Channel, have been selected. Culpeper's (2011) model for analyzing impoliteness is used. Hamed (2014:218) argues that Arabs use positive impoliteness strategies (i.e. "seek disagreement" and sarcasm or mock) which aim to damage the positive face of the addressee. But impoliteness can have other manifestations than the ones that are stated by Hamed. The study revealed that there are many instances of insult in the episodes covering all the categories of insult in the model, and this reflects impoliteness in interaction.  This study is concerned with linguistic 'politeness' and 'impoliteness' as technical pragmatic terms. Politeness and impoliteness phenomena are intersecting and strongly related phenomena in contemporary pragmatic, however, politeness is more popular and more extensively studied than impolite-ness. In addition, impoliteness can not be studied without referring to the literature of politeness as a starting point to understand and study impoliteness.

Article Details

Impoliteness in Arab Talk Shows: A Case Study of Insult in the Opposite Direction

Authors:

Abdelkawy, Haitham Omar

Publisher:

جامعة بني سويف - كلية الآداب

Journal:

مجلة كلية الآداب Vol.2019 Issue 50, pp.71-98

Document Type:

Article

Publication Date:

3/2019

Document Language:

English

Document ID (Org No.):

2001095574

pISSN:

2090-9012

التلفزيون

البرامج التلفزيونية

الإهانة

عدم التأدب

البرامج الحوارية السياسية

برنامج الاتجاه المعاكس

Issues

Article Details

Impoliteness in Arab Talk Shows: A Case Study of Insult in the Opposite Direction

Authors: Abdelkawy, Haitham Omar

Publisher: جامعة بني سويف - كلية الآداب

Journal: مجلة كلية الآداب Vol.2019 Issue 50, pp.71-98

Document Type: Article

Publication Date: 3/2019

Document Language: English

Document ID (Org No.): 2001095574

pISSN: 2090-9012

التلفزيون

البرامج التلفزيونية

الإهانة

عدم التأدب

البرامج الحوارية السياسية

برنامج الاتجاه المعاكس

Issues

Authors:

Abdelkawy, Haitham Omar

Publisher:

جامعة بني سويف - كلية الآداب

Journal:

مجلة كلية الآداب Vol.2019 Issue 50, pp.71-98

Document Type:

Article

Publication Date:

3/2019

Document Language:

English

Document ID (Org No.):

2001095574

pISSN:

2090-9012