PEACE AGREEMENT BETWEEN BAHRAIN AND ISRAEL IN THE AMERICAN NEWSPAPERS: A PRAGMA-STYLISTIC STUDY

Authors

  • Ghanim Jwaid Al-Sieedy
  • Haider Nasser Hassan Al-Ta'ee

Keywords:

Political texts, Pragma-stylistics, Grice’s maxims, politeness strategies and American newspapers.

Abstract

The present study is concerned with analyzing "Peace Agreement between Bahrain and Israel in the American Newspapers" pragma-stylistically. It aims at investigating the use and the frequencies of the pragmatic components, namely, politeness and Grice's maxims which are utilized by the writers of the political texts of these newspapers. A model is proposed by the study to conduct a qualitative pragma-stylistic analysis consisting of Grice’s (1975) cooperative principle, Brown and Levinson ’s (1987) politeness strategies and Martin’s(2014) figures of speech. Frequencies and percentages are also utilized to calculate the results quantitatively.

The analysis of the data shows that the pragmatic components which characterize the pragmatic style of the texts of these newspapers are the positive politeness and flouting the maxim of quality. The results reveal that implicature plays a great role in the texts of these newspapers.

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Published

2021-08-18

How to Cite

Ghanim Jwaid Al-Sieedy, & Haider Nasser Hassan Al-Ta’ee. (2021). PEACE AGREEMENT BETWEEN BAHRAIN AND ISRAEL IN THE AMERICAN NEWSPAPERS: A PRAGMA-STYLISTIC STUDY. PalArch’s Journal of Archaeology of Egypt / Egyptology, 18(10), 171-187. Retrieved from https://www.archives.palarch.nl/index.php/jae/article/view/9736