AN ANALYSIS BASED ON LEECH’S POLITENESS PRINCIPLES IN THEDRAMA ‘DHOOP KINARAY

Abstract

This is a pragmatic study i.e. study that primarily involves the interpretation of the utterances and the particular context in which it is uttered. This research focuses on the analysis of Pakistani drama ‘Dhoop Kinaray’. It is a descriptive qualitative research using pragmatic approach, specifically, the Politeness principles. Politeness principles are a series of maxims, which Leech (1983) has proposed as a way of explaining how politeness operates in conversational exchanges. The six maxims proposed by him are tact, generosity, approbation, modesty, agreement and sympathy maxims. The data is collected by note taking technique and then analysed descriptively. After analysing the data, the researcher finds the use of politeness principle in the drama script. The result shows that Urdu language is rich can be used in the analysis of various Pragmatics approaches. Almost all the Leech’s maxims were found after analysis, in which tact maxim is found the most and sympathy maxim the least. The study also gave account to the reasons which makes a conversational exchange more or less polite. Hence, it gives a comprehensive overview of the Politeness principles in the drama ‘Dhoop Kinaray’. This drama has been selected because there was no work done on Pakistani languages in the field of pragmatics. However, there was a lot of work done on cooperative principles and conversational implicature, but very few addressed Leech’s politeness principles.