A PRAGMATIC ANALYSIS OF POLITENESS STRATEGIES USED BY PAKISTANI AND AMERICAN POLITICIANS IN INTERVIEWS

Abstract

The present paper aims to study politeness strategies used by Pakistani and American politicians during their talk in an interview. It also focuses on how the politicians used language based on their geographical area’s features of the English language. the present study follows Brown and Lavinsons’s (1987) politeness strategies model to fulfill the objectives of the research. A qualitative approach has been used to find the politeness strategies used by politicians in their interviews. Total 5 interviews by Pakistani and American politicians are included in the study for the analysis. The interviews are recorded and transcribed. The talk of each politician is analyzed following the parameters given in the model adapted for the study. The study highlights that the politeness strategies are used differently by Pakistani and Americans politicians. The study reveals that these strategies have been employed by the politician diversely in order to make their speech more effective and argumentative. The conclusion of the analysis determines that both the American and Pakistanis politicians have demonstrate almost the same politeness strategies in their interviews.