They also show that the interviewer (FQ) has played a role in instigating the interviewees to resort to impolite interruptions.

Results show that the most common strategies of impoliteness interruptions employed by interlocutors include bold on record impoliteness, mock impoliteness, negative impoliteness, ignorance, showing disinterest and unconcern, using imperatives and direct sarcastic questions that do not seek answers, accusations and ridiculing and using profane language. The paper adopts Culpeper's Model of impoliteness (1996) in the analysis of impoliteness instances in the selected corpus. He is the author of Pragmatics (1996) and. The study collates a corpus consisting of one translated episode into English of the ‘Opposite Direction’ covering the topic of ‘The Clash of Civilization and the Class of Religions’ in which the interviewer Faisal Qasim (FQ), a famous journalist on Al-Jazeera Channel invites Wafa Sultan (WS), a writer and a researcher in Los Angles and Ibrahim Al-Khouli (IK), a lecturer at Al-Azher University. George Yule has taught Linguistics at the Universities of Edinburgh, Hawaii, Louisiana State and Minnesota. The more offensive the debate is, the more interested the viewers will be. This situation is usually triggered and intensified by the interviewer who is supposed to be neutral and works into managing the interview. in Applied Linguistics (1978), and a PhD in Linguistics (1981). in English Language and Literature (1969), M.Sc. He studied at Edinburgh University, completing an M.A. In the heat of discussion, interlocutors resort to certain aggressive strategies to attack each other's face in an attempt to get the floor and instigate the other interviewee to react in a more offensive manner. George Yule was born in Stirling, Scotland in 1947, and became an American citizen in 2000. The present paper draws a conversational sketch of impoliteness strategies as employed by interlocutors in the 'Opposite Direction' presented by Al-Jazeera satellite channel.

The Study of Language by George Yule