A Socio-Pragmatic Analysis of the President Braham Salih's Broadcasting Interviews

Abstract

 The study aims to analyze the selected interviews of president Braham Salih as a sample of  Iraqis politician  from socio-pragmatic perspectives, namely, speech acts, cooperative maxims, and politeness. The study displays the impacts of socio-cultural factors on his speech. The study presents theoretical background knowledge, then, it is going to analyze the data to come up with major findings: shedding light on major types of speech acts (directive, expressive), which maxims have been adhered to or which one have been floated because of exaggeration or giving information more than required.The last findings are obtained from utilizing positive and negative politeness (as interruption, overlapping, and avoiding answer the questions).