Impoliteness in Egyptian Political Campaign Discourse: A Pragmatic Analysis of Mousa-Aboulfotouh Presidential Debate

Abstract

This article is intended to analyze verbal impoliteness in the first and only Egyptian televised presidential debate. The objective of this article is to examine how impoliteness strategies are indirectly utilized by the presidential candidates Mousa and Aboul fotouh. The analysis pinpoints the intended implications resulting from this linguistic phenomenon. The study is capitalized on Culpeper's Theory of Impoliteness (1996, 2005) as its framework to deduce how impoliteness can intentionally be used to save/threaten the face of competing politicians.

Negative Impoliteness and Reconstruction of Identity: Cyberpragmatics Analysis of Palestinian Conflict News Comments on Arab Youtube Channel

“…According to the findings of (Al Zidjaly, 2012Zidjaly, , 2019aZidjaly, , 2019bI draw on contemporary theorizing on the concept of face (e.g., Ting-Toomey 1994, 2004 Tracy 2008, the speeches reflect the confusion of Arab identity, so they need the construction of a new community mediated by the internet. In line with that, existing speeches no longer focus on personal face-to-face attacks, but more than that to have sociocultural implications (El-Falaky, 2019;Gerbaudo, 2012;Sumiala & Korpiola, 2017). Thus, negative impoliteness in the speech commentator's speech is no longer only in the microstructure of discourse but has entered the macrostructure in the form of the social context targeted by the speaker (Angouri & Tseliga, 2010).…”

“…The study draws on Spencer-Oatey (2007 where Arabic Youtube user comments are dominated by impolite language. From the aspect of the object, this study focuses on discussing the Palestinian conflict, while previous studies discuss conflicts in other Arab countries (Badarneh & Migdadi, 2018;El-Falaky, 2019;Gordon et al, 2017;Harlow, 2012;Labben, 2018;Sheline, 2021;Sinatora, 2019).…”

Pragmatic deviation of politeness principle in Trump’s political speeches

“…Therefore, scholars have begun to investigate this phenomenon proposing and applying different theories of impoliteness to various situations. The following are recent studies that have been done on impoliteness (Abdelkawy, 2019;Alemi & Latifi, 2019;Colaco et al, 2021;El-Falaky, 2019;Ibrahim, 2020;Koike et al, 2022).…”

“…Furthermore, some recent studies have been done on impoliteness (Abdelkawy, 2019;Alemi & Latifi, 2019;Colaco et al, 2021;El-Falaky, 2019;Ibrahim, 2020;Koike et al, 2022). However, they concentrated on the application of impoliteness in dialogues and conversations adopting either Culpeper's (1996Culpeper's ( , 2011 model of impoliteness or Bousfield's (2008) impoliteness.…”