(Im)politeness in Digital Communication

Graham, Sage L.; Hardaker, Claire

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“…However, the papers in the last group all introduce research on naturallyoccurring data derived from computer-mediated communication. Im/politeness in online contexts has intensively been worked on in the last two decades (for overviews see, e.g., Graham & Hardaker 2017, Locher 2006, Locher et al 2015. The papers in this volume continue the discussion of methodological and theoretical approaches and add insights into different languages and cultures in online practices.…”

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“…Последние посвящены исследованию естественной речевой коммуникации, осуществляемой с применением современных компьютерных технологий. В последние два десятилетия исследование вежливости в онлайн-контексте интенсивно развивается (см., например, Graham & Hardaker 2017, Locher 2006, Locher et al 2015. Статьи нашего спецвыпуска продолжают обсуждение методологических и теоретических подходов и дают представление о различных языках и культурах в онлайн-общении.…”

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Introduction to Politeness and Impoliteness Research in Global Contexts

Locher

Larina

2019

Russian Journal of Linguistics

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Im/politeness research has been a solid and growing research field in sociolinguistics, pragmatics and discourse analysis during the last four decades. The scientific interest in this topic is not accidental and may be explained by the general pragmatic turn of modern interdisciplinary linguistic studies which are not focused on language as an abstract system, but on its functioning in various contexts and types of interaction. Knowledge of the strategies and politeness mechanisms used in various social and cultural contexts promotes mutual understanding in communication. In this introduction to the special issue on im/politeness in global contexts we will briefly position the topic of im/politeness research, and highlight advancements in im/politeness theory, method and data. We then turn to a brief synopsis of each individual paper and highlight the theoretical and methodological contributions and innovations proposed by our authors. We end with a discussion of the results and a brief outlook on future research.

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Introduction to Politeness and Impoliteness Research in Global Contexts

Locher

Larina

2019

Russian Journal of Linguistics

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“…They use social media for variety of purposes but mainly this social media has helped them to interact with others both for interactional and transactional purposes. Culpeper & Hardaker (2017) stated that Facebook for example was initially used for interactional purposes or relation-oriented, but nowadays this has shifted into transactional (task-oriented), which users can also use for business purposes.…”

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“…In spite of the fact that this social media interaction can enhance public participation, Habermas' vision of rational interactions may not always be the case as the identity in internet or digital communication is fluid and status markers are not clearly defined (Poster, 1997). In addition to its function to facilitate the public participation, digital communication such as social media, according to Graham & Hardaker (2017), provides the ease of identity construction because in digital communication, the internet users have more control on how they present themselves in their interaction. They further explain that social media are equipped by tools, such as "like" and "block", that reflect how the users of social media evaluate the comments or other internet users' behavior.…”

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“…This partly due to impoliteness research is not conducted independently, instead impoliteness is treated as "the absent of politeness" (Eelen, 2001). Nevertheless, Graham & Hardaker (2017) argue that the flood of digital media has caused more interactions are facilitated through this media and the expectations of what considered polite and impolite in those contexts may be shifted. Therefore, studies on politeness and impoliteness are still relevant to this day.…”

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(Im)Politeness and (In)Civility in Social Media: The Case of Pronouns and Propositions in Twitter Comments

Aisah¹,

Saifullah²

2020

Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Arts Language and Culture (ICALC 2019)

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While social media provides "a public sphere", a term coined by Habermas, which can foster public participation leading towards democracy, this also comes with issues of (im)politeness and (in)civility reflected in the use of language. This study explores issues of (im)politeness and (in)civility in digital communication through the analysis of pronouns and propositions in twitter comments posted by netizens in an official site of Jokowi's twitter account (@jokowi). 138 data were randomly collected from netizens' twitter comments responding to three Jokowi's twitter posts stating his actions towards students' demonstration posted on September 26, 2019. This study also used 106 responses from a questionnaire. Content analysis was used as the method of the study. To analyze the utterances in the comments, theory of impoliteness by Culpeper and theory of incivility by Papacharissi were used. The findings of this study revealed that some pronouns indicate inappropriate identity markers and some propositions used sarcasm or mock politeness based on the cotext and context of the use. In addition, the analysis of propositions showed some degree of incivility as they reflect an attack towards the positive face of President Jokowi as seen from their denying, and distrust towards President Jokowi's efforts. Thus, in spite of the fact that some impolite use of pronouns and propositions indicate public participations as in Lyotard's "democratic participation", this should be also accompanied by rational discussions in order to create a democratic society.

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Impoliteness on Social Media

Dynel

2024

The Encyclopedia of Applied Linguistics

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This entry aims to chart the landscape of impoliteness research on social media. Impoliteness is conceptualized as a theoretical framework with which to capture discursive aggression. Impoliteness is prevalent across social media, facilitated by their affordances. A number of key issues and notions relevant to pragmatic research on social media impoliteness are addressed: forms of discursive aggression online (notably, hate speech and cyberbullying); emic/etic labeling of aggressive practices (e.g., via metapragmatic comments); appropriation or normalization of aggressive discourse; the contextually driven distinction between genuine aggression/impoliteness and overtly pretended aggression (i.e., mock impoliteness); and the diversity of reactions to impoliteness in public (and thus inherently, multi‐party) communication, which range from offense to humor experience.

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(Im)politeness in Digital Communication

Cited by 58 publications

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Introduction to Politeness and Impoliteness Research in Global Contexts

Introduction to Politeness and Impoliteness Research in Global Contexts

(Im)Politeness and (In)Civility in Social Media: The Case of Pronouns and Propositions in Twitter Comments

Impoliteness on Social Media

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