Politeness Strategies in Advice Giving Used by Bani Hassan: Grice’s Approach

Abstract

This study aims to examine the politeness strategies in advice giving employed by speakers of the Bani Hassan dialect, based on Grice's politeness approach as a theoretical framework and to show the most frequent strategy employed by them. A Discourse Completion Test (DCT) comprising 50 different situations was used to investigate and elicit the responses of 100 participants. The results revealed that there are two primary categories of strategies were used by the participants: direct and indirect. The direct strategies are: using the imperative form, using the imperative form preceded by the negative particle laa "not", using the verb ansah"أنصح" (advise) and using mitigation. On the other hand, the indirect strategies are: using religious expressions, using proverbs, suggesting alternatives, giving negative consequences, giving positive consequences, using insulting, using sarcasm, using emphasizing, using interjection, and using jokes. The results also showed that using the verb 'Ɂansˁaħ' (Advise) is the most frequent strategy used by Bani Hasan speakers to give advice with (17.7%) of the total strategies.