Year: 2025
Type: article
Abstract: Although there are studies on self-politeness, they cannot be considered sufficient to account for self- impoliteness since they have not tackled it directly and in details. As there is no previous model on self- impoliteness, and since self-politeness is studied in Leech (1983, 2014) and Chen (2001), and self-impoliteness is part of Culpeper (2010), the present study proposes an eclectic model that adapts Leech’s (1983, 2014) Politeness Principle, Chen’s (2001) Self-politeness, and Culpeper (2010) typology of conventionalized impolite formulae. In addition, Tokui’s (1995) functional categories of soliloquy are also adopted. This model is manipulated to pragmatically analyzing and investigating self-impoliteness in Hamlet’s soliloquies. The objectives addressed in this study are: to examine Self-impoliteness Speech Acts in Hamlet’s soliloquies. to investigate the functional categories of Hamlet's self-impolite speech acts in Soliloquies. to find out which of the self-impoliteness strategies and of the violated Self-politeness strategies are more frequent in Hamlet's soliloquies and why. The data of this study consist of (18) Self-impoliteness Speech acts in Hamlet’s soliloquies. The findings of this study showed that the frequently repeated Functional category of soliloquy is anger. The most frequently violated self-politeness maxims of the General Strategy of Politeness and self-politeness strategy were Baldly and Approbation respectively. While the widely used self-impoliteness strategy was Insult and its category the personalized negative reference.
Source: Al-Adab Journal
DOI: 10.31973/gq1b6q26
Author: Sahira Salman
Institution: Ministry of Higher Education and Scientific Research
Language: English
Subfield: Language and Linguistics
Field: Arts and Humanities
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: gold
Estimated APC paid: $200
OpenAlex ID: W4417311328