A Sociopragmatic Study of Radio Listeners’ Interactions in Tlemcen FM Broadcasting

Abstract

This research is a sociopragmatic perspective through which we have approached the field of verbal interaction analysis. The ultimate aim of the current study is to explore and describe the different peculiarities that characterize the verbal behaviour of Tlemcen speech community via radio phone-ins conversations. For this objective, an interactional approach has been adopted to analyse our corpus represented by many authentic, recorded, transcribed, and translated to English conversations, selected from two well known broadcast programmes. After the analysis of conversations, the results has revealed that the interactional ethos of Tlemcen speech community is is generally fluctuated between rather standoffish and direct on the one hand, and warm and easy- going on the other hand.