Understanding Politeness in an Online Community of Practice for Chinese ESL Teachers: Implications for Sustainable Professional Development in the Digital Era

Chung, Edsoulla; Tang, Eunice

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“…While some studies have explored impoliteness in online communication (e.g., Chung & Tang, 2022;Sharif et al, 2019;Ranalan, 2020;Zhang, 2022), no relevant work has been found regarding impolite language directed at a government agency like the Department of Education. This research gap emphasizes the need for linguistic investigation in the new normal pedagogical context.…”

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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: Impoliteness Strategiesmentioning

confidence: 99%

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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A dialogic approach to promoting professional development: Understanding change in Hong Kong language teachers’ beliefs and practices regarding vocabulary teaching and learning

Chung

Evans

2022

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Linguistic and cultural analysis of the concept “politeness”

Mambetniyazova,

Babaeva,

Dauletbayeva

et al. 2024

Semiotica

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The need to study the concept of “politeness” from the point of view of its linguistic and cultural nature is caused by the desire to study the national identity of speech etiquette in different cultural spaces and conditions. The aim of the work was to form an idea about the specifics of the implementation and understanding of the concept of “politeness” in the Uzbek information field. In this study, the following methods were used: contextual, conceptual, communicative, linguocultural, analytical-synthetic, and comparative. This study is focused on the study of key lexical meanings (stylistically neutral and marked, basic and additional) that are within the functional-semantic field of the concept “politeness.” With the help of contextual study of different variants of the use of the lexeme, the meanings were distributed in the conceptual structure (core, near and far periphery). Also, the key etiquette formulas representing the originality and national-specific features of the Uzbek linguocultural tradition were considered. The importance of politeness in the information space of Uzbekistan is assessed, including with the help of both positive and negative associations, that is, from an axiological point of view. Speech etiquette and linguistic formulas were considered from the point of view of the influence of social, cultural, and political values of the Uzbek people. In the process of analyzing the lexical layer, the boundaries of the functional-semantic field of the concept “politeness” were determined: from the principles of communication and a set of rules of etiquette to the strategy of obtaining benefits from communication and insincere attitude. In the future, this work can be used for comparative analysis of the conceptual structure of politeness with models presented in other close and distant languages, comparison of speech etiquette and linguistic formulas in different national cultures.

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Understanding Politeness in an Online Community of Practice for Chinese ESL Teachers: Implications for Sustainable Professional Development in the Digital Era

Cited by 3 publications

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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

A dialogic approach to promoting professional development: Understanding change in Hong Kong language teachers’ beliefs and practices regarding vocabulary teaching and learning

Linguistic and cultural analysis of the concept “politeness”

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