Impolidez em textos on-line no facebook: análise das escolhas lexicais numa perspectiva textual-interativa

Filho, Ricardo Rios Barreto; Neves, Herbertt; Barros, Kazue Saito Monteiro de

doi:10.4013/cld.2019.173.02

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“…The same types of impoliteness formulae displayed in Table 1 have been found in other languages and cultures (cf. Barreto Filho et al, 2019, for Portuguese data; Kleinke and Bös, 2015, for German data; Lai, 2019, for Chinese data). Obviously, no impoliteness formula guarantees a judgement of impoliteness (it could be a matter of banter) as impoliteness formulae are context-sensitive (see below).…”

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Shameless normalisation of impoliteness: Berlusconi’s and Trump’s press conferences

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Culpeper

Semino

2020

Discourse & Society

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This paper applies the notions of impoliteness and shameless normalisation to potentially impolite behaviours produced by Donald Trump and Silvio Berlusconi in official press conferences. Press conferences, as an activity type, involve relatively clear expectations and norms, so that impolite behaviours theoretically constitute particularly salient violations. We present two case studies involving racist and misogynist insults on the part of Berlusconi and Trump, respectively, analysed in their co-textual, interactional, socio-political as well as historical contexts. We describe the kinds of impoliteness that each politician employs, without any apology, and argue that they involve violations of the traditional moral order that are part of a far-right populist agenda of shameless normalisation. In each case, we examine comments posted in response to YouTube videos of each incident and provide evidence of polarised responses, but with substantial proportions expressing positive evaluations. We observe that impoliteness affords the possibility of presenting authentic and hyper-masculine identities and finish by reflecting on the implications of our findings for the local and global political and cultural landscape.

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Section: Impolitenessmentioning

confidence: 99%