Politeness strategies in Relizane spoken Arabic

Abstract

The focal point of the present research work is to study linguistic politeness, taking a variety of Algerian Arabic, namely Relizane spoken Arabic as a case of study. The first chapter of this work provides some basic definitions that are related to the current topic. The second chapter mentions several studies that have been conducted by other researchers about linguistic politeness, but the third one is concerned the methodology and data analysis. This work attempts to discover some of the politeness strategies that are adopted bu speakers of Relizane speech community. Observation is used as a tool in order to collect an appropriate data. Analysis of the data showed that, there is a high applicability between politeness strategies used in Relizane speech community and politeness strategies as proposed by Brown and Levinson 1987.