The pragmatics of insinuation

Bertuccelli, Marcella

doi:10.1515/ip-2014-0001

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“…Insinuation emerges as an indicator of off-record impoliteness, characterized by the expression of unpleasant hints or suggestions regarding DepEd's implementation of learning delivery modalities. An insinuation is employed by speakers to make addressees believe them without being held accountable for their statements (Papi, 2014). Online comments demonstrate critics expressing weariness and annoyance towards DepEd's ineffective programs while evading accountability for their expressions.…”

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Netizens at Odds with the Education Department: Analysis of Impoliteness Strategies on an Online Platform

Pasana¹,

Lemana

Mamonong

2023

RCM. Res. J.

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The COVID-19 pandemic has prompted the Philippines, along with other nations, to restructure its educational framework to meet the evolving needs and challenges of the time. Consequently, this reorganization has led to changes in the learning delivery modalities (LDMs). The Philippine Department of Education (DepEd) has faced significant criticism on social media regarding issues related to preparation, flawed materials, and implementation. By employing a pragmatic analysis approach based on Culpeper's theory of impoliteness strategies, this study examines fifty Facebook comments criticizing the said department and its new LDMs. The findings reveal that critics employed various impoliteness strategies, including bald-on-record impoliteness, positive impoliteness, negative impoliteness, off-record impoliteness, withhold politeness, and impoliteness meta-strategy. The study's outcomes suggest that analyzing impoliteness strategies in online comments can provide insights into how such remarks serve as social actions. Researchers working with these textual forms, as well as those specializing in the study of genres and languages, can benefit from the findings of this study. The implications of the findings are discussed for policymakers, educators, and students within the Philippine education system.

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Section: Discussionmentioning

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Netizens at Odds with the Education Department: Analysis of Impoliteness Strategies on an Online Platform

Pasana¹,

Lemana

Mamonong

2023

RCM. Res. J.

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“…For Mahon (2008), "to deceive=to intentionally cause another person to have (or continue to have) a false belief that is truly believed to be false by the person intentionally causing a false belief." (cited in Papi, 2014, p9) Buller&Burgoon (2004 propose certain factors through which the process of deception is determined. Among these factors come: "contextual factors, senders' and receivers' pre-interaction, pre-existing knowledge, the positive or negative valence of the relationship between conversational partners, and initial expectations for honesty within the exchange."…”

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Deception in Amber Heard and Johnny Depp’s Trials

Nahla Mahmoud Hadi,

Rufaidah Kamal Abdulmajeed

2023

JCEW

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Deception is defined as a linguistic and non-linguistic behavior that is used in interaction in order to make the addressees believe what is believed to be false or lack evidence. McCornack (1992) classifies deception into four manipulative strategies (i.e., fabrication, distortion, equivocation and concealment), other scholars argue that deception encompasses the strategies of “fabrication (outright lying), equivocation (being vague and ambiguous), or concealment (with holding relevant information) Thus, the present study investigates the deception strategies and motives that are used by Johnny Depp and Amber Heard during their defamation trials. Qualitative and quantitative methods are employed when analyzing the data in question. The first method is achieved via using Buller & Burgoon’s (2004) strategies of deception and Ekman’s (1995) motives of deception, while the second method is achieved via counting frequencies and percentages. It is found that the strategies of fabrication and equivocation are frequently used by Johnny Depp, while the strategies of fabrication and concealment are frequently used by Amber Heard. It is concluded that deception can be achieved via using the strategy of fabrication in order to avoid embarrassment, get rid of an awkward situation and get the admiration of others.

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“…cirlo directamente-y, al mismo tiempo, reflexionan y dicen algo sobre lo que están haciendo.Las insinuaciones suelen ser analizadas como delicadas estrategias comunicativas en las que el insinuador manipula la relación entre lo dicho y lo no dicho para cubrir su intención frente a un interlocutor(Bertuccelli Papi 2014; ver también Reyes 2004). Entendidas de esta manera, las insinuaciones parten de la distinción entre individuos discretos con intenciones claramente definidas que pueden ser mostradas u ocultadas.Pero, aunque los esmeralderos suelen reconocer que las esmeraldas son voluntariosas, que deciden a quién aparecérsele, que eligen, que llaman, con sus insinuaciones no buscan manipularlas ni convencerlas subrepticiamente de algo ni, mucho menos, ocultar su responsabilidad (para una discusión sobre la distribución de la responsabilidad en este contexto ver Caraballo Acuña[2019]); los guaqueros no se relacionan con ellas como entidades cuyas intenciones puedan ser discretamente definidas y manipuladas.…”

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“Como sin querer la cosa”. Insinuaciones e indeterminación en los encuentros entre esmeralderos y esmeraldas en Colombia

Acuña

2021

rev.colomb.antropol.

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En el contexto de la formalización de la minería en Colombia, mineros artesanales, comerciantes y talladores de esmeraldas suelen enfatizar la indeterminación en sus encuentros con ellas y con sus cualidades. En lugar de acechar para extraer, de planear para tallar o de estandarizar para vender, en general privilegian la impredecibilidad de los encuentros y la espectralidad de las piedras. Por ello, lo que hacen es diseñar insinuaciones específicas de las cuales los encuentros interruptivos pueden surgir de manera indeterminada. En sus palabras, hay que buscar, tallar y vender esmeraldas “como sin querer la cosa”. En este artículo propongo entender estas insinuaciones como prácticas lingüísticas y no lingüísticas que los esmeralderos usan para encontrarse con las esmeraldas y para crear la indeterminación como una teoría de su mundo que interrumpe el pensamiento económicopolítico de la formalización. Propondré que “como sin querer la cosa” nos da, como lo hace una guaca, la posibilidad de un pensamiento indeterminado erigido desde interrupciones y sorpresas. A este pensamiento, cuya naturaleza intento emular en la estructura misma del artículo, lo llamaré pensamiento esmeralda.

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The pragmatics of insinuation

Cited by 8 publications

References 12 publications

Netizens at Odds with the Education Department: Analysis of Impoliteness Strategies on an Online Platform

Netizens at Odds with the Education Department: Analysis of Impoliteness Strategies on an Online Platform

Deception in Amber Heard and Johnny Depp’s Trials

“Como sin querer la cosa”. Insinuaciones e indeterminación en los encuentros entre esmeralderos y esmeraldas en Colombia

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