Essays about: "positive impoliteness"

Found 2 essays containing the words positive 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. 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