(Im)politeness on Facebook during the Covid-19 pandemic

IF 1.4 2区 文学 0 LANGUAGE & LINGUISTICS Journal of Politeness Research-Language Behaviour Culture Pub Date : 2022-08-31 DOI:10.1515/pr-2021-0008
Jean Mathieu Tsoumou
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Abstract Digital discourse has emerged as a substantial focus of interest within the pragmatic field. Specifically, (im)politeness practices on social media have increasingly received scholarly attention in the last decade (Tagg, Caroline, Philip Seargeant & Amy Aisha Brown. 2017. Taking offence on social media. Conviviality and conviviality and communication on Facebook. Switzerland: Springer Nature, Palgrave McMillan; Tsoumou, Jean Mathieu. 2020. Analyzing speech acts in politically related Facebook communication. Journal of Pragmatics 167. 80–97). However, research combining COVID-19, Facebook and (im)politeness in a politically polarizing context is still scarce. This paper is an analysis of (im)politeness in Facebook comments posted as reactions to Giuliani’s COVID diagnosis. Thus, by combining quantitative and qualitative approaches, the aim of the present paper is twofold: On the one hand, it intends to further our understanding of the manifestation of (im)politeness practices on Facebook through an analysis of reactive comments to Giuliani’s Covid-19 diagnosis on BBC news Facebook page. On the other hand, the paper aims to examine how the struggle between impoliteness and politeness divides Facebook users between sympathizers and detractors of the patient. Through a metadiscursive analysis, the identified (im)politeness items are distributed in an uneven fashion, with impoliteness-oriented items prevailing as the dominant macro category against politeness-oriented ones. The findings suggest that users employ different strategies to express or intensify (im)politeness, favoring explicit expressions of impoliteness such as redress/agreement, insults, pointed criticisms/complaints, unpalatable questions and/or presuppositions over others like threats.
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新冠肺炎大流行期间Facebook上的礼貌
摘要数字话语已经成为语用学领域关注的焦点。具体而言,在过去十年中,社交媒体上的礼貌行为越来越受到学术界的关注(Tagg,Caroline,Philip Seargeant&Amy Aisha Brown,2017)。在社交媒体上发脾气。Facebook上的欢乐、欢乐和交流。瑞士:施普林格自然,帕尔格雷夫·麦克米兰;祖牟,让·马蒂厄。2020.分析与政治相关的脸书交流中的言论行为。语用学杂志167。80–97)。然而,在政治两极分化的背景下,结合新冠肺炎、Facebook和(im)礼貌的研究仍然很少。本文分析了脸书评论中的礼貌,这些评论是对朱利安尼确诊新冠肺炎的反应。因此,通过定量和定性相结合的方法,本文的目的是双重的:一方面,它旨在通过分析英国广播公司新闻Facebook页面上对朱利安尼新冠肺炎诊断的反应性评论,进一步理解(im)礼貌做法在Facebook上的表现。另一方面,本文旨在研究不礼貌和礼貌之间的斗争如何将脸书用户分为同情者和诋毁者。通过元话语分析,识别出的(im)礼貌项目以不均衡的方式分布,不礼貌导向项目占主导地位,而礼貌导向项目则占主导地位。研究结果表明,用户使用不同的策略来表达或强化(im)礼貌,倾向于明确表达不礼貌,如纠正/同意、侮辱、尖锐的批评/抱怨、令人不快的问题和/或预设,而不是威胁。
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期刊介绍: The Journal of Politeness Research responds to the urgent need to provide an international forum for the discussion of all aspects of politeness as a complex linguistic and non-linguistic phenomenon. Politeness has interested researchers in fields of academic activity as diverse as business studies, foreign language teaching, developmental psychology, social psychology, sociolinguistics, linguistic pragmatics, social anthropology, cultural studies, sociology, communication studies, and gender studies. The journal provides an outlet through which researchers on politeness phenomena from these diverse fields of interest may publish their findings and where it will be possible to keep up to date with the wide range of research published in this expanding field.
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