He locates his work on pragmatics under what he. They also show that the interviewer (FQ) has played a role in instigating the interviewees to resort to impolite interruptions. He has written extensively on pragmatics, producing the first comprehensive textbook in the field (1983). Results show that the most common strategies of impoliteness interruptions employed by interlocutors include bold on record impoliteness, mock impoliteness, negative impoliteness, ignorance, showing disinterest and unconcern, using imperatives and direct sarcastic questions that do not seek answers, accusations and ridiculing and using profane language. The paper adopts Culpeper's Model of impoliteness (1996) in the analysis of impoliteness instances in the selected corpus.

The study collates a corpus consisting of one translated episode into English of the ‘Opposite Direction’ covering the topic of ‘The Clash of Civilization and the Class of Religions’ in which the interviewer Faisal Qasim (FQ), a famous journalist on Al-Jazeera Channel invites Wafa Sultan (WS), a writer and a researcher in Los Angles and Ibrahim Al-Khouli (IK), a lecturer at Al-Azher University. The more offensive the debate is, the more interested the viewers will be. This situation is usually triggered and intensified by the interviewer who is supposed to be neutral and works into managing the interview. Levinson, Pragmatics (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press), 1983 E. In the heat of discussion, interlocutors resort to certain aggressive strategies to attack each other's face in an attempt to get the floor and instigate the other interviewee to react in a more offensive manner. (1983:9) defines pragmatics as the study. Levinson’s 1983 book, Pragmatics, is not only the first major text in that field, but also the first to include the study of conversational interaction among the traditional concerns of researchers in language pragmatics.

The present paper draws a conversational sketch of impoliteness strategies as employed by interlocutors in the 'Opposite Direction' presented by Al-Jazeera satellite channel. the meaning which the speaker or writer intends to communicate).

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