Solid State Technology Volume: 63 Issue: 6 Publication Year: 2020 8116 Archives Available @ www.solidstatetechnology.us Pragmatic Analysis on Leech's Maxims in three Surahs from The Holy Quran Hamid Gittan Jewad English Language and Literature, Faculty of Letters and Humanities Ferdowsi University of Mashhad, Mashhad, Iran English language, Karbala University, Iraq, Karbala Zargham Ghabanchi English Language and Literature, Faculty of Letters and Humanities Ferdowsi University of Mashhad, Mashhad, Iran Mohammad Ghazanfari English Language and Literature, Faculty of Letters and Humanities Ferdowsi University of Mashhad, Mashhad, Iran Abstract- This study has investigated three Surahs from the Holy Quran, translated into English by Arberry (1955), in terms of the Politeness Principle proposed by Leech (1983). The study aimed to investigate the kinds of politeness maxims employed by the characters in the three Surahs in question. The intentions of the speakers in observing or flouting each of Leech's politeness maxims have been categorized, including six maxims of the Politeness Principle: tact maxim, generosity maxim, approbation maxim, modesty maxim, agreement maxim, and sympathy maxim. The research had applied a mixed- methods approach to analyze the obtained data. The data consisted of the utterances uttered by the characters in the three Surahs. After collecting the data, the data classified into six maxims of the Politeness Principle. Then, several conclusions had been drawn based on the research findings. The results of the present study showed that the characters used six maxims: tact maxim, generosity maxim, approbation maxim, modesty maxim, agreement maxim, and sympathy maxim. Finally, the findings indicated that three maxims had been flouted by the characters: tact maxim, generosity maxim, and agreement maxim. Keywords: pragmatics, Politeness Principle, politeness maxims, religious discourse 1. Introduction Fraser (1983, p. 30) defines pragmatic competence as "the knowledge of how an addressee determines what a speaker is saying and recognizes the intended illocutionary force conveyed through subtle attitudes." Without this knowledge, the cases that interlocutors cannot understand each other, and failure can happen in communication. One significant feature of pragmatic competence is politeness. Politeness is defined as "the expression of the speakers' intention to mitigate face threats carried by certain face- threatening acts to another" (Mills, 2003, p. 6). The strategies by which the interlocutors can mitigate