Politeness Strategies Used by The Interviewer of BBC World’s “Hard Talk” Programme

Khaldoon Khattab, Maysoon

	Politeness Strategies Used by The Interviewer of BBC World’s “Hard Talk” Programme
Journal Of AL-Turath University College
Article 1, Volume 0, Issue 7, 2017, Pages 322-332
Author
Maysoon khaldoon Khattab
Abstract
The present study concentrates on the politeness strategies utilized by the interviewer of BBC World's "Hard Talk" programme. It is hypothesized that Stephen Sackur, the main presenter of "Hard Talk" programme, is biased in his coverage of the Middle East issues and he utilizes less politeness strategies with interviewees from the Middle East than he does with the interviewees from Britain. The procedure consists of surveying the model that will be used in the analysis of the data. This includes in particular the model proposed by Brown and Levinson (1978). Also surveying the available literature on broadcast political interview. TV interviews in the "Hard Talk" programme were video recorded, transcribed and used as a sample text for the analysis. Then, data analysis was carried out the and conclusion was set. On the whole, politeness strategies occur more frequently per interview when the interviewee is from Europe especially Britain than when he is from the Middle East (Palestine). I think that has to do not mainly with the interviewer's bias with a specific host from a specific country, but with certain important demands and norms and certain practices that sustain the conduct of the interview. In Stephen Sackur's interview with David Milliband, he utilizes more politeness strategies; that is because the risk of the face threatening act encoded in the questions and assertions is high. SS does not use politeness strategies in most of the questions with Ghassan Al-Khatib because they show least risk to the interviewee.
Keywords
Interviewer; BBC

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