Evasion in Pakistani parliamentary question Hour discourse: the case of punjab assembly

Abstract

Evasion , vague expressions, intentionally used  in communication to avoid negative situation. This study finds out evasion strategis used by Pakistani Parliamenarians  who manipulate answers of the required question during question Hour in the 15th Provential Assembly of Punjab. The analysis is based on tiradic amalgamation proposed in turn of  functional approach by Bull and Mayer (1993) which was further developed by Bull (2003), the semantic- structural approach by Galansinski (2000), and finally by Clayman (2001).. The investigation has significance of bringing awareness in general public about use of evasion strategies by politicians.