Studies on (im)politeness and facework on social networks: some remarks towards a state of the art

This paper will present an analysis of male interactional humour in Spanish conversation. Humour can appear in such conversations as a strategy to show (im)politeness between participants in the interaction. Focussing in particular on politeness strategies, we will seek to identify the different types of humour that arise in conversations between men. To this end, we will draw on Brown and Levinson’s theory of politeness ([1978] 1987: 213), which lists a number of strategies that aim to produce politeness and, at the same time, calculates the estimated risk of losing face that arises from an individual’s conversational behaviour. In the analysis we will also consider Spencer-Oatey’s (2000, 2007) proposal of a set of factors that can affect rapport management strategies. Our aim is to show that humour as expressed between men in conversational utterances, involves conversational strategies that are used to elicit respect for both listener and speaker, or to save the negative and positive face of these, according to politeness criteria. To this end, the VALESCO.HUMOR corpus is used, which comprises 148 ironic-humorous sequences extracted from 67 colloquial conversations.

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Ataque a la imagen y descortesía en los comentarios de blogs en español peninsular

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2017

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ResumenLas características particulares de la comunicación en la red han favorecido un aumento del empleo de estrategias descorteses. Los blogs, entendidos como red social con gran presencia en la sociedad actual, se han convertido en un escenario excelente para el empleo de este tipo de procedimientos y, en las interacciones que se establecen, es habitual la presencia de continuos ataques a la imagen de los otros. Sin embargo, han recibido escasa atención desde el punto de vista de los estudios de (des)cortesía. La importancia del presente trabajo reside, por tanto, en que persigue la caracterización de la descortesía y el ataque a la imagen en los comentarios en blogs, a partir del análisis de 90 muestras extraídas de blogs en español peninsular con temáticas variadas. Atenderemos sobre todo a: (1) los procedimientos que se emplean en este tipo de interacciones descorteses; (2) las diferencias existentes de acuerdo con la persona sobre la que se ejerce la descortesía; (3) la intención del hablante; y (4) los efectos que se crean en el receptor.Palabras clave: descortesía, ataque a la imagen, redes sociales, blogs, comentarios. AbstractThe unique characteristics of online communication have benefited the increase in the use of impoliteness strategies. Blog, as relevant social media in today's society, have become an excellent setting for the use of these impoliteness strategies. In addition, continuous face-threatening acts are found in the interactions in this type of media. However, little consideration has been given to this fact from the point of view of studies about (im)politeness. The relevance of the present paper is, therefore, the pursuit of the characterization of impoliteness and the face-threatening acts in blogs' commentaries based on 90 samples taken from peninsular Spanish blogs about different topics. Great attention will be paid to: (1) the mechanisms employed in this type of impolite interactions; (2) the established distinctions in regards to the target of the impolite strategy; (3) the speaker's intention; and (4) the effects on the recipient.

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Studies on (im)politeness and facework on social networks: some remarks towards a state of the art

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