(Im)politeness and Identity

Blitvich, Pilar Garcés-Conejos; Sifianou, Maria

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“…Spencer-Oatey (2007) argues for the importance of considering questions about identity and insights from theories of identity in work on face. Garcés-Conejos Blivitch and Sifianou (2017) explore the connections between ideas about face and identity, arguing that they are closely connected and also difficult to distinguish. This is because, they argue, ‘they co-constitute each other and are thus intrinsically related’ (Garcés-Conejos Blivitch and Sifianou, 2017: 248).…”

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“…Garcés-Conejos Blivitch and Sifianou (2017) explore the connections between ideas about face and identity, arguing that they are closely connected and also difficult to distinguish. This is because, they argue, ‘they co-constitute each other and are thus intrinsically related’ (Garcés-Conejos Blivitch and Sifianou, 2017: 248). They argue convincingly for greater focus on identity in work on (im)politeness.…”

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Identity inferences: Implicatures, implications and extended interpretations

Clark

2020

Language and Literature: International Journal of Stylistics

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This article considers how ideas from relevance-theoretic pragmatics can be applied in understanding the construction of identity in interaction, while presupposing that consideration of ideas about identity can make a significant contribution to pragmatic theories. While previous work on pragmatics has focused on the construction and performance of identity, this has not been much discussed in work from a relevance-theoretic perspective. For illustration, the article refers mainly to a video recording of a UK House of Commons Select Committee session on drug addiction. While the video provides considerable relevant data about identity construction, the article does not develop a detailed analysis of the video or the extracts it focuses on. Instead, it uses them to argue for the usefulness of relevance-theoretic ideas in understanding identity and impression management. The ideas focused on are that communication can be stronger or weaker (i.e. it can be more or less clear that particular assumptions are being intentionally communicated), that there is no clear cut-off point between very weakly communicated implicatures and non-communicated implications, that interpretation generally involves going beyond what the communicator intended to derive the addressee’s own conclusions, that the effects of communicative interaction include more than the derivation of new assumptions and that adjustments to ‘cognitive environments’ (the sets of assumptions which are accessible to individuals at particular times) can continue after interactions take place. These ideas can be useful in a number of areas including in understanding identity in general, literary identities, attitudes to language varieties, the production of communicative acts and the teaching of spoken and written communication.

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Identity inferences: Implicatures, implications and extended interpretations

Clark

2020

Language and Literature: International Journal of Stylistics

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“…The relationship between linguistic aggression as impoliteness and identity (BLiTvich;SiFianoU, 2017;GeoRGakoPoULoU, 2013;UPaDhYaY, 2010) is seen in the responses and reactions supplied by a group of participants of a Facebook page designed as a campaign against class discrimination in a university in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. The page under consideration was started as a platform for students from underprivileged backgrounds, who had felt that they had experienced discrimination on campus, to disseminate and call attention to their stories.…”

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Aggression as impoliteness in a Facebook discussion about class discrimination in a Brazilian university / Agressão como descortesia em uma discussão no Facebook sobre discriminação de classe em uma universidade brasileira

Flannery

2021

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This paper exemplifies the use of aggression as impoliteness in computer-mediated, or digital communication in Brazilian Portuguese, while looking into the performance of such linguistic actions in the context of a discussion about class discrimination. Specifically, it investigates the relationship between linguistic aggression as impoliteness, and identity as observed in a Facebook campaign page about a Brazilian university. The page under consideration was devised as an open platform to disseminate and call attention to examples of discriminatory behaviors experienced by students from peripheric communities attending an elite university in Rio de Janeiro. These students were at the center of a controversy, as they were supposedly brought to this institution through social programs promoted by the previous, leftist oriented governments. This paper examines the use of linguistic aggression as impoliteness, such as name calling and overt disagreement (Lorenzo-Dus; Blitvich; Bou-Franch, 2011), to communicate different opinions about, or argue against, the perceived instances of discrimination supplied by the students in the campaign and subsequently discussed by the participants in their posts. These impoliteness strategies ratify identities in the context of the discussion, marking in and outside group members, as the participants 1) align against, or 2) justify, the described behaviors.Keywords: aggression; impoliteness; identity; narrative; discrimination; Facebook; digital communication.Resumo: Este artigo exemplifica o emprego de agressão como descortesia na comunicação mediada, ou digital, no português brasileiro, observando-se o desempenho de tais ações linguísticas no contexto de uma discussão sobre discriminação de classe. Especificamente, investiga-se a relação entre agressão linguística como descortesia e identidade tal como observada em uma campanha em uma página do Facebook sobre uma universidade brasileira. A página sob consideração foi projetada como uma plataforma aberta para disseminar e chamar a atenção para exemplos de comportamentos discriminatórios vivenciados pelos estudantes de comunidades periféricas frequentando uma universidade de elite no Rio de Janeiro. Os membros desta comunidade estudantil estavam no centro de uma controvérsia, por supostamente terem sido admitidos na instituição por meio de programas sociais promovidos por governos anteriores, de tendência esquerdista. Este artigo examina o uso de agressão linguística como descortesia, tais como chamar nomes, i.e., dirigir-se a alguém empregando termos insultuosos, e discordar diretamente (Lorenzo-Dus; Blitvich; Bou-Franch, 2011), para comunicar diferentes opiniões sobre, ou argumentar contra, as percebidas instâncias de discriminação supridas pelos estudantes na campanha e subsequentemente discutidas pelos participantes nas suas postagens. Estas estratégias de descortesia ratificam as identidades no contexto da discussão, marcando membros e não-membros do grupo, na medida em que os participantes 1) alinham-se contra, ou 2) justificam os comportamentos descritos.Palavras-chave: agressão; descortesia; identidade; narrativas; discriminação; Facebook; comunicação digital.

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Im/Politeness in Translated Press Discourse

Sidiropoulou

2021

Advances in (Im)politeness Studies

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(Im)politeness and Identity

Cited by 42 publications

References 94 publications

Identity inferences: Implicatures, implications and extended interpretations

Identity inferences: Implicatures, implications and extended interpretations

Aggression as impoliteness in a Facebook discussion about class discrimination in a Brazilian university / Agressão como descortesia em uma discussão no Facebook sobre discriminação de classe em uma universidade brasileira

Im/Politeness in Translated Press Discourse

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