Politeness in Political Discourse: Face Threatening Acts (FTAs) in American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) Speeches
Face Threatening Acts (FTAs) are politeness forms which have been struggled over in the past and now as they are pragmatically deemed relevant in identifying centripetal and centrifugal movements exerted by political actors on their interlocutors. Political discourse has been qualitatively appro...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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ORDT: Organization for Research Development and Training
2020-11-01
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| Series: | Journal of Interdisciplinary Sciences |
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| Online Access: | http://journalofinterdisciplinarysciences.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/3-Politeness-in-Political-Discourse-Face-Threatening-Acts-FTAs-in-American-Israel-Public-Affairs-Committee-AIPAC-Speeches.pdf |
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| Summary: | Face Threatening Acts (FTAs) are politeness forms which have been struggled over in the
past and now as they are pragmatically deemed relevant in identifying centripetal and centrifugal
movements exerted by political actors on their interlocutors. Political discourse has been qualitatively
approached from sociological, cognitive and pragmatic perspectives. Pragmatically speaking, the
findings on approaching political discourse from politeness perspective have been controversial and
ranged from being confined to the interactional level to negotiating implicit power relations. This study
offers a politeness theoretical framework to examine American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC)
political annual speeches between 2006 and 2012. The target of this research is to understand which
politeness strategies political actors deploy when addressing the audience and how these political
speakers please the other and fulfill political ends. The results display an over-reliance on Face
Threatening Acts on record with redressive action at the expense of Face Threatening Acts on record
without redressive action and Face Threatening Acts off record. Positive politeness, notably expressive
speech acts, play an inclusive role, gain the audience sympathy and reshape public opinion. The study
fills the gap in the study of the impact of positive politeness on political discourse and calls for the
consideration of expressive speech acts as means of power negotiation rather than mere interaction. |
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| ISSN: | 2594-3405 |