Pragmatic analysis on leech's maxims : approbation, modesty, agreement, and sympathy in the fourth crescent English course for Yemen

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This research aimed at discovering the polite and impolite expressions regarding the approbation, modesty, agreement and sympathy maxims of Leech (1983) in the conversations in the Fourth Crescent English Course for Yemen taught in Yemeni Secondary Schools.

It also aimed at interpreting them and how the violations of those maxims of Leech happen in the contexts of politeness principle in the conversation Textbook 4.

It is a descriptive qualitative and analytical, in which the information was collected from the related literature, previous studies and the Crescent English textbook 4.

This research used the content analysis of the fourth Crescent English Course for Yemen as the sources of data.

The most important findings of this research revealed that the agreement maxim and approbation maxim of Leech's politeness principle are highly used, while the modesty and sympathy are rarely used in the textbook 4.

The identifiable Leech maxims are 13 approbation data, 4 modesty data, 20 agreement data and 4 sympathy data employed in the conversations of the Crescent Textbook 4.

The violations of maxims are found in one data of the approbation maxim and in 7 data of the agreement maxims in the textbook, while the violations of the modesty and sympathy maxims are not found in the textbook.