Face Threatening Acts and Standing Orders: ‘Politeness’ or ‘politics' in the Question Time Discu ssions of the Kenyan Parliament

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dc.contributor.authorAmbuyo, B. A.
dc.contributor.authorIndede, F. N.
dc.contributor.authorKaranja, Peter Ndichu
dc.date.accessioned2014-06-06T09:52:41Z
dc.date.available2014-06-06T09:52:41Z
dc.date.issued2011-07
dc.description.abstractThis paper examines politeness in the context of politics during question time discussions of the Kenyan Parliament; politeness is an attempt by the speaker to linguistically show he cares about the others feelings. Question time is a highly aggressive session full of FTAs but the parliamentarians are constrained to produce parliamentary language required by the standing orders of 2008, thus politeness strategies become the only linguistic device to the realization of fruitful political discussions. The live televised question time sessions within a period of two weeks in the month of April and May 2009 were recorded, transcribed and sampled for analysis. This was done using a theoretical framework encompassing positive, negative, and image repair politeness strategies. The findings show that certain strategies are used to mitigate FTAs thus enhancing effective communication; others are a ritual requirement by the standing orders whereas others are as a result of mere politics between the different political factions.en_US
dc.identifier.citationInternational Journal of Humanities and Social Science Vol. 1 No. 9 [Special Issue – July 2011]en_US
dc.identifier.issn2220-8488
dc.identifier.other2221-0989
dc.identifier.urihttp://ir-library.ku.ac.ke/handle/123456789/9828
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.publisherCentre for Promoting Ideas, USAen_US
dc.subjectFace Threatening Acts (FTAs)en_US
dc.subjectStanding Ordersen_US
dc.subjectPolitenessen_US
dc.subjectPoliticsen_US
dc.subjectMitigationen_US
dc.subjectMembers of Parliament (MPs)en_US
dc.subjectEffective Communicationen_US
dc.subjectIdeological Communicationen_US
dc.titleFace Threatening Acts and Standing Orders: ‘Politeness’ or ‘politics' in the Question Time Discu ssions of the Kenyan Parliamenten_US
dc.typeArticleen_US
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