Essays about: "Impoliteness"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 8 essays containing the word Impoliteness.

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. Japanese Native Speakers’ Derogatory Language Use Against Men and Women

   University essay from Lunds universitet/Japanska

   Author : Oliver Braun; [2021]
   Keywords : impoliteness; gender; insults; derogatory language; Languages and Literatures;

   Abstract : This thesis explores the differences between how Japanese native speakers use insults and derogatory language toward men and women. Initially, impoliteness is described as an area of sociolinguistics that explores face-threatening acts, the offensiveness of which is modified by various factors, such as the interlocutors’ relationship and gender. READ MORE

5. 4. Multiculturalism for integration and the repertoires of racializing the other: A case of Kenyan immigrants living in Sweden

   University essay from Malmö universitet/Fakulteten för kultur och samhälle (KS)

   Author : Diana Waruhiu Magnusson; [2020]
   Keywords : Integration; Multiculturalism; Stereotyping;

   Abstract : This study is grounded on qualitative interviews with 12 adult Kenyan immigrants living in Sweden regarding their experiences of othering, racialisation, creation of divisions in society based on “us” and “them” linked on repertories of racializing the other in the Swedish multicultural environment. I engage with stereotyping as theory which is used as a tool to pick difference, racialize the respondents by white Swedish natives, and how these actions affect the respondents in their everyday life in Sweden. READ MORE

6. 5. 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