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Cross-Cultural Politeness Perspective of Bapsi Sidhwa’s Novel “An American Brat“
Abstract
This research opens up cross-cultural politeness perspective of the Bapsi Sidhwa’s novel “An American Brat”. Moreover, it endeavors to explore most preferred polite linguistic strategies utilized by American speakers while interaction with the people of third world countries. Brown & Levinson’s theoretical framework of politeness will be employed as a research instrument for the textual analysis of the novel. It’s very supportive tool in current research. This research is exploratory in nature. Textual analysis of the novel will be conducted to deduce the results. This research concludes that Bald on- record politeness strategy is much preferred in most of powerful countries. Since America is a dominating country so most of Americans use this strategy while dealings with colonized people. Due to colonizing sub-continent for a long time they still consider themselves powerful and superior to others. Therefore, they think that they have privilege to dominate and control the social behaviors, cultural values and language of the people of sub-continent countries even after post colonization. The findings of this research will be helpful for linguists, sociolinguists and educationists in understanding the real nature politeness.
Authors
Muhammad Ilyas Mahmood
Director, Centre for English Language & Learning, University of Okara, Punjab, Pakistan
Abida Shamim
Visiting Lecturer, Centre for English Language & Learning, University of Okara, Punjab, Pakistan
Dr. Shabeer Ahmad
Assistant Professor, Department of English, University of Sahiwal, Punjab, Pakistan
