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International Journal Of Language, Literature And Culture(IJLLC)

Fathi, ’24 Formulaic Politeness in Moroccan Arabic

S. Fathi


International Journal of Language, Literature and Culture (IJLLC), Vol-4,Issue-4, July - August 2024, Pages 10-16, 10.22161/ijllc.4.4.2

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Article Info: Received: 21 Apr 2024, Received in revised form: 25 May 2024, Accepted: 04 Jul 2024, Available online: 14 Jul 2024

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This paper aims to show that Moroccan males and females do make use of polite speech behavior that cannot be accounted for in Brown & Levinson’s framework of politeness. In other words, such highly expressive speech behavior is different from Brown & Levinson’s politeness strategies in many respects. While such politeness behavior attends to the face wants of the hearer, it cannot be considered as politeness strategies in Brown & Levinson’s sense, but rather as Politeness Formulas. Politeness formulas differ also from strategies with respect to their politeness conversational structure.

politeness formulas – positive/negative politeness - politeness strategies – positive/negative face –face wants – frozen formulas

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