@article{Mudasser_2020, title={Corpus based Analysis of Politeness Strategies in Acknowledgement Section of Selected Pakistani PhD Literature and Linguistics Theses: Acknowledgement Section of Selected Pakistani PhD Literature and Linguistics Theses}, volume={1}, url={https://journals.au.edu.pk/ojserevna/index.php/erevna/article/view/34}, abstractNote={<p>Acknowledgement section of PhD thesis is often taken as the<br>least read section in a thesis as compared to the serious research based<br>content. However, while decoding the significance of acknowledgment<br>section, the researchers have focused on the use of compliments and<br>gratitude expressions. This study aims to present the oft neglected aspect<br>of academic theses i-e acknowledgment sections of selected Pakistani<br>PhD literature and linguistic theses to study how and why thesis writers<br>use politeness strategies to express compliments and gratitude towards<br>others. The study also links the use of politeness strategies with the<br>cultural context of writers. The data has been taken from the<br>acknowledgment sections of selected Pakistani PhD theses retrieved<br>from HEC Pakistan‘s thesis repository. Leech (2005) and Bach and<br>Harnish‘s (2005) model of politeness strategies is used as framework for<br>analysis using corpus as a method. The study reveals that the Pakistani<br>PhD thesis writers follow a God-supervisor-colleague-teachers-friendsfamily pattern while expressing gratitude to others. With reference to the<br>cultural and religious norms, the Pakistani writer firstly expresses<br>religious sentiments and then gives vent to the cultural and personal<br>feelings of gratitude.</p&gt;}, number={1}, journal={Erevna: Journal of Linguistics and Literature}, author={Mudasser, Samia}, year={2020}, month={Apr.}, pages={20-37} }