Search results for "impoliteness"

"Haters gonna hate": characterizing hater comments on YouTube thanks to impoliteness theories

2017

International audience; Previous studies have shown that comments on YouTube tend to show a “low degree of neutral stance” (Sindoni, 2014: 203). Comments are often either strongly positive or negative. Negative comments themselves commonly display all forms of aggressive and impolite behaviour (sarcasm, name-calling, hostility, ad personam attacks and a whole variety of other deliberate face-threatening acts). The epitome of this behaviour is the so-called “hater”, a commenter that deliberately posts abusive comments (“you suck”, “”Miranda sings is shit”, “fuck you Miranda sings”), generally unconnected to the content of the video and/or not constructive (see definitions in Lange: 2007). Ev…

"Oh, that is just such crap, you cowardly, dysfunctional little schmuck!" : impoliteness in the dialogues of H. Fielding's novels Bridget Jones's dia…

2005

Análisis contrastivo de la (des)cortesía en los comentarios digitales del periódico 20minutos.es y del Facebook de viajacontumascota.com: anonimato y…

2019

Esta investigación analiza las diferencias entre dos tipos de discursos digitales: las intervenciones reactivas a cinco posts por parte de los seguidores de una página de Facebook, ViajaconTuMascota.com, en la que existe cierta camaradería por la afición compartida; y los comentarios de lectores anónimos, entre los que no se establece esa solidaridad, a cinco noticias del periódico digital, 20minutos.es. Se pretende comprobar cómo inciden estas diferencias, la presencia o ausencia de solidaridad y el anonimato frente a la identidad real, cuando se producen desacuerdos: si se mantiene la cortesía social, a través de una cortesía mitigadora, o si se quiebra al activarse una estrategia de cibe…

Systematized impoliteness in the nonsense world of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass

2013

International audience; Theories of conversation very often revolve around the idea of cooperation, an idea dear to their founding father H.P. Grice (see Grice 1975). In a similar fashion, as Jonathan Culpeper points out in the introduction to his article “towards an anatomy of impoliteness”, theories of politeness often define the latter as a set of strategies “employed to promote or maintain social harmony in interaction” (Culpeper 1996:349). For those familiar or accustomed to this vision of conversation, reading Lewis Carroll’s Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland (1865) and Through the Looking-Glass (1872) might be quite an interesting (and enjoyable) experience. In Carroll’s imaginary lan…

El foro.com: encuentros y desencuentros en el "coliseo ideológico"

2014

This paper focuses on the study of the virtual identity of Internet users in discussion forums and, specifically, their discursive identity. After a brief introduction to the concept of virtual identity, I analyze the basic characteristics of such forums, conceived as a place of dialectic, polyphonic and multidiscoursive communication. In the second part, I examine locutors’ discursive behavior in ideological argumentative discourse. First, I look at the image that the Internet user offers through its argumentative posts and how it is perceived by the virtual community. Next I analyze the argumentative strategies employed by locutors in “El foro de religión”, focusing my attention on those …

Las columnas de Arturo Pérez-Reverte entre descortesía y virtud

2020

Impoliteness is a prevailing feature in Arturo Pérez-Reverte’s columns. Against all odds, it has a big argumentative effectiveness, since it allows the locutor to show an image of himself which is virtuous, that is a sincere, credible and, for this reason, persuasive. After all, as Aristotle states in his Rhetoric, persuasion depends on locutor’s ability to project an attractive ethos (self-image). Among the qualities that guarantees this attraction, the Stagirite includes the virtue, i.e. the speaker’s ability to tell frankly his/her opinions and ideas. In Pérez-Reverte’s columns, the realization of this quality is exactly what determines a frankness bordering sometimes on impoliteness. Ho…

”You’re orange, you moron!” : The use of impoliteness strategies in the American TV-series House M.D.

2010

  Ihmisten välistä kommunikointia määrittävät tietyt säännöt, jotka eivät ole synnynnäisiä, vaan jotka opimme kasvaessamme. Esimerkiksi kohteliaisuus on ilmiö, johon törmäämme lähes päivittäin erilaisissa sosiaalisissa tilanteissa. Olemme kohteliaita antaaksemme itsestämme hyvän kuvan, luodaksemme toimivia ihmissuhteita ja säilyttääksemme ne. Kohteliaisuuden vastakohta, epäkohteliaisuus, ei myöskään enää nykypäivänä ole lainkaan harvinainen ilmiö, ja siitä syystä sitä tulisi tutkia aivan kuten kohteliaisuuttakin. Television katselu on jatkuvasti lisääntynyt ja ohjelmatarjonta monipuolistunut. Vanhat konseptit eivät enää riitä, vaan on keksittävä jatkuvasti uudenlaisia ideoita, jotta sarjast…