Désamorçage et évitement dans la conversation quotidienne en arabe saoudien et tunisien

  • Jihene Beji Princess Nourah bint Abdulrahman University, Riyadh

Abstract

This study uses a bi-dialectal corpus, Tunisian and Saudi, to examine certain techniques of defusing and avoidance within the framework of a conversation likely to take a conflictual turn. Intersubjective relationships are not always harmonious, and therefore friction between interactants is foreseeable. Such friction can lead to a deadlock and to the cessation of the conversational process, jeopardizing social cohesion. Anticipatory techniques are thus considered to "defuse" a possible conflict and ensure the smooth running of the exchange. In the Arab-Muslim context, the use of certain formulas is part of this strategy of "politeness" and provide information on this Arab-Muslim communicative ethos. The characteristics of this ethos, both common and divergent between the Tunisian and Saudi dialects, make it possible to account for specificities and inter-dialectal convergences of a cultural nature.

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Author Biography

Jihene Beji, Princess Nourah bint Abdulrahman University, Riyadh

Jihene Beji

(Translation Department, College of Languages, Princess Nourah bint Abdulrahman University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia)

earned her PhD from the University of Paris III - Sorbonne Nouvelle in 2006. Since September 2016 she is an Assistant professor at the College of Languages, Translation Department, ​​of the Princess Nourah bint Abdulrahman University (Riyadh, Saudi Arabia). She has published several articles in the areas of discourse analysis and pragmatics, the most recent of which appeared in the Asian EFL Journal and in the Jordan Journal of Modern languages (JJMLL). She also contributes to the research project Analyzing Stylistic, Historical and Socio-cultural Markers: Their Weight in the Translation of Proverbs.

She can be reached at: JBEJI@pnu.edu.sa

Published
2022-02-07