Politeness strategies used by the characters in Ola Rotimi’s our husband has gone mad again
Abstract
Politeness strategies are strategies used by interlocutors to soften threats to positive and negative face of others who are faced with Face Threatening Acts (FTAs) while engaging in conversation. This paper exploits politeness strategies used by the characters in Ola Rotimi’s Our Husband Has Gone Mad Again to soften threats to face of those who are threatened by Face Threatening Acts (FTAs) while conversing collectively. The study adopts Brown’s and Lavinson’s (1987) politeness theory as its Theoretical Framework and employed Qualitative Method of data analysis to analyse its data. Data for the study are excerpts from the text under review. They were analysed and the result showed that element of Bald on Record Politeness Strategy such as commands; components of positive politeness strategy like polite expressions of admiration, tag questions, honorifics, discourse marker (please), expressions of gratitude; features of Negative Politeness Strategy suck as questions, hedges, apologies, pessimistic statements, generalised expressions, and constituents of off-record politeness strategy such as impersonal pronoun are used by the characters in the text to mitigate threats to positive and negative face of those who are faced with Face Threatening Acts (FTAs) while chatting accordingly. The study concludes that politeness strategies are important tools used to soften threats to positive and negative face of interlocutors who encountered Face Threatening Acts (FT As) while conversing collectively.
How to Cite This Article
Samaila Yakubu (2022). Politeness strategies used by the characters in Ola Rotimi’s our husband has gone mad again . International Journal of Multidisciplinary Research and Growth Evaluation (IJMRGE), 3(5), 178-183.