Essays about: "Impoliteness strategies"

Found 4 essays containing the words Impoliteness strategies.

  1. 1. “Not my MVP!” : Analysing impoliteness in Twitter comments towards award-winning basketballers in the NBA and WNBA leagues

    University essay from Stockholms universitet/Engelska institutionen

    Author : Jonathan Rosén; [2023]
    Keywords : Impoliteness; gender; positive impoliteness; bald on-record impoliteness; NBA; WNBA; Twitter;

    Abstract : This essay investigates impoliteness in the context of Twitter-based comments on award announcing tweets for the Most Valuable Player-award (MVP) in the National Basketball League (NBA) and the Women´s National Basketball League (WNBA). A comparison was made between how impoliteness is realized in the male NBA and the female WNBA,allowing for a comparison of received impoliteness based on gender. READ MORE

  3. 2. Politics and ‘Playing Rude’ : A Comparative Analysis of Impoliteness in American Presidential Debates 2000-2020

    University essay from Stockholms universitet/Engelska institutionen

    Author : Kristian Pandov; [2021]
    Keywords : Impoliteness; face-attacks; impoliteness micro-strategies; American presidential debates; negativity cycles; overlap.;

    Abstract : The present study investigates the use of impoliteness in American presidential debates, analyzing whether the use of impoliteness strategies has increased, whether this varies depending on the candidate’s status as an incumbent or a challenger and if Donald Trump is an outlier when compared to his peers. To conduct this study, a total of 12 debates from the last 6 elections (2000-2020) were analyzed. READ MORE

  4. 3. President Trump’s use of ‘Impoliteness Strategies’ in Twitter outputs targeted at U.S. politicians (from 15 June 2015, to 24 May 2019)

    University essay from Umeå universitet/Institutionen för språkstudier

    Author : Albin Hamnö; [2020]
    Keywords : U.S. President Donald Trump; Twitter; Impoliteness strategies; Impoliteness triggers; Impoliteness functions; Quantitative analysis; Degree of offence;

    Abstract : This paper enters into a field of linguistics dedicated to analysing the use of strategies in performing impolite, intentionally targeted, language output. Specifically, it evaluates the purpose(s) of U.S. President Donald Trump’s impolite output on social media platform Twitter. READ MORE

  5. 4. The power of insults : A study of condescending linguistic strategies in four English online discussion forums

    University essay from Institutionen för humaniora

    Author : Anna Holmberg; [2008]
    Keywords : derogatory linguistic strategies; flaming; FTA; impoliteness; insults; threads;

    Abstract : The aim of this study is to investigate how language is used, online, in a condescending way in order to make the recipient feel belittled. The research questions sought to find out what kind of linguistic strategies are used online in order to make language function in a derogatory way as well as the linguistic reactions these strategies evoke in the recipients. READ MORE