A Pragmatic Analysis of Pakistani Religious Podcast (Mufti Tariq Masood)

Abstract

Pragmatics is a subfield of linguistics that deals with a speaker's meaning beyond the literal meaning. Pragmatics has a highly significant role in our lives to improve social interactions and communication skills. It also clarifies how personalities interact with their viewers and analyses what language strategies they use to be listened to and followed. Mufti Tariq Masood is a well-known Islamic scholar believed in for his wisdom by a sea of people. He distributes his understandings through videos and podcasts. For that reason, researchers have gone for a pragmatic analysis of mufti Tariq Masood to explore his persuading style. For a detailed analysis, pragmatics is divided into subgroups. The researchers have preferred speech acts to breakdown the utterances spoken by Mufti Tariq Masood. Speech acts have three types: Locutionary, Illocutionary, and Perlocutionary. To simplify, researchers have examined these categories in tabular form, which classifies the speech acts. To study the role of these speech acts, they have made a selection of some podcasts and videos created by mufti Tariq Masood on his YouTube channel. They have listened to and observed carefully all the utterances made in these videos and categorised those utterances with their time laps in the table according to their categories. Based on the data collected, researchers have discovered that directive speech acts are more common than others. Mufti Tariq Masood performs a directive speech act to educate the Pakistani youth.