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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| description | 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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| spelling | doaj-art-cf21bc26d2d04264b5bf865eb4e8a6ab2025-08-20T02:56:43ZengORDT: Organization for Research Development and TrainingJournal of Interdisciplinary Sciences2594-34052020-11-01422942Politeness in Political Discourse: Face Threatening Acts (FTAs) in American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) SpeechesTarak Dridi0Faculty of Arts and Humanities of Sfax-Tunisia 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. 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.pdfface threatening actsredressiveon recordpolitenessoff recordpolitical discourse |
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| title | Politeness in Political Discourse: Face Threatening Acts (FTAs) in American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) Speeches |
| title_full | Politeness in Political Discourse: Face Threatening Acts (FTAs) in American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) Speeches |
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| title_short | Politeness in Political Discourse: Face Threatening Acts (FTAs) in American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) Speeches |
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| topic | face threatening acts redressive on record politeness off record political discourse |
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