Impoliteness strategies employed by facebook users in online political discourse /
This study explores impoliteness in comments of political posts from selected Facebook (FB) pages. It focuses on three main aspects which are instances of impolite comments, employment of impoliteness strategies and components of face affected in the interaction. Nine impoliteness strategies were...
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| Format: | Thesis |
| Language: | English |
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Kuala Lumpur :
Kulliyyah of Islamic Revealed Knowledge and Human Sciences, International Islamic University Malaysia,
2018
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| Online Access: | http://studentrepo.iium.edu.my/handle/123456789/6554 |
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| Summary: | This study explores impoliteness in comments of political posts from selected Facebook (FB) pages. It focuses on three main aspects which are instances of impolite comments, employment of impoliteness strategies and components of face affected in the interaction. Nine impoliteness strategies were investigated which are insults, pointed criticisms/complaints, challenging/unpalatable questions and/or presuppositions, negative expressives, condescensions, message enforcers, dismissals, silencers and threats. Then, three components of face were examined which are quality face, social identity face and equity rights. This study used purposive sampling where comments of 12 political posts from two FB pages were chosen as data. The researcher utilised content analysis by using two frameworks to answer the research questions which are Culpeper's (2011) conventionalised formulae of impoliteness strategies and Culpeper's (2005) revised notion of face. Based on the findings, impolite comments majorly composed the FB users' responses to the posts. All nine strategies were found with pointed criticisms/complaints as the most frequent strategy employed and social identity face was the highly affected component of face in the interaction. Since impoliteness is quite new to the study of pragmatics, the findings of this study can add to the literature particularly explaining the occurrence of impoliteness in online communication. |
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| Physical Description: | xiii, 125 leaves : illustrations ; 30cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (leaves 98-103). |