Speech Strategies of Official in Covid Pandemic According to Politeness Principle (Saudi Minister of Health as a Model) ((Rhetorical Deliberative Approach))

Abstract

This research studies the new aspects of rhetoric and the rhetoric of everyday discourse that shows the extent of the relationship between the interlocutors when the speaker employs them in his linguistic works and speech aids. This is regarded as new discourse that is open to pragmatic linguistic studies and expanded it to include various topics concerned with the interactive dimension between the interlocutors, which includes the principle of politeness as applied study method in this research.

The researcher dealt with the blog Speeches of the Saudi Minister of Health in light of the Corona pandemic and looked at it via the principle of politeness and its strategies, in Brown and Levinson theory of the principle of politeness.

In this research,  the author  reached results that revealed the extent of the speaker’s consistency in his use speech between maintaining the level of polite speech at one time, and the level of the speech of authority and direction at other times, and the extent to which the owner of the blog represents those speeches, and the relationships they contain related to the social and cultural dimension of society, and their impact on the addressee’s response of those discourses, the extent to which those strategies are employed and their impact on embodying the strength of the relationship between the interlocutors.

Eventually, it made the response of the masses to this speech delivered, and the research showed that daily rhetoric, despite the fact that the words do not rise to the ranks of the literary language and its metaphors, but it was a great presence in the participation of ancient rhetoric with its other elements, and participated in it as a result of grooming and influencing the recipient without coercion.

The employment of linguistic and indicative acts and others that fit the speaker’s intentions and eligibility, and the contextual circumstances surrounding him, and that the presence of the interlocutors in the discourse does not mean the acceptance of the discourse in rhetorical studies, but rather that there must be common relationships that the speaker employs in his understanding, and the addressee employs in his interpretation, as The position of authority and its owner’s preservation of his authoritarian position does not