POLITENESS STRATEGIES IN THE QUR’AN AS MODEL FOR INTERPERSONAL RELATIONSHIP: THE CASE OF NIGERIA

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dc.contributor.authorAliyu Okuta Ahmad
dc.date.accessioned2026-05-05T17:03:56Z
dc.date.available2026-05-05T17:03:56Z
dc.date.issued2021
dc.description.abstractThis study focuses on linguistic politeness strategies in the Muslims’ scripture, the holy Quran as a divine revelation and complete guidance for mankind. The study aims at investigating politeness strategies in the Qur’an and how such strategies can effectively enhance interpersonal relationships among speech participants; thereby answering the question: “of what extent will the application of Qur’anic politeness strategies help in creating harmonious relationship within human societies?” The study extracted some politeness strategies from some verses of the holy Qur’an and analyzed them, using the Qualitative Content Analysis Method, while relating each strategy to Leech’s Maxims of Interaction. Nigeria as a multi-ethnic, multi-religious and multi-cultural society has since independence experienced series and still experiencing scores of violence, rioting and conflicts, instigated greatly by unguarded speech acts or impoliteness. The findings of the paper reveal that the Qur’anic politeness strategies provide the basic ingredients for interpersonal relationship and good neighborliness, regardless of race, color or religion. The paper finally recommends that future studies should unravel more rules and strategies of politeness in the holy Qur’an, since the issue of politeness studies in this book is not yet exhausted.
dc.identifier.issn2289-5396
dc.identifier.urihttps://kwasuspace.kwasu.edu.ng/handle/123456789/6876
dc.language.isoen
dc.publisherCentre for Quranic Research, University of Malaya, Malaysia
dc.titlePOLITENESS STRATEGIES IN THE QUR’AN AS MODEL FOR INTERPERSONAL RELATIONSHIP: THE CASE OF NIGERIA
dc.typeArticle
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