The Realization of Impoliteness in Arguments between the Democrats and Republicans over the Government Shutdown Issue in the US

Alemi, Minoo; Latifi, Ashkan

doi:10.22363/2312-9182-2019-23-1-83-97

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“…The analysis of the negative frequencies in the two selected speeches presented in Tables (2) and (3) shows there is no significant difference in the use of negatives by Trump and Clinton. However, this increased frequency of negation first suggests that both Clinton and Trump are more predisposed to the negation phenomenon in their election speeches.…”

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Negation in American Discourse: A Socio-Cognitive Study

Muslah

Abbas

2022

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The present study cognitive aims to investigate the negation phenomenon in American political discourse under Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA) principles. The research sample includes two speeches given by Clinton and Trump in their election campaigns in 2016. Since the nature of the study follows the social-cognitive approach, the researcher adopted two models of analysis to achieve the study’s objectives: First, the theoretical framework of MST (developed by Fauconnier (1994), Fauconnier and Sweetser (1996) to examine meaning construction resulting from building different levels of negative mental spaces by two different genders the selected speeches. Second, pragmatic model to examine the role of gender from the functional perspective of negation, five pragmatic strategies here are adopted, namely, Speech Act, off-record, on-record, presupposition (based on the politeness model of Brown and Levinson, 1987), and violation of Grice’s maxims (1975). The study follows a qualitative method in the analytical interpretation of data to understand the negative impact of a contextual model and subjective model (personal ideology and knowledge) and quantitative analysis to find out the frequencies and the types of negatives. The findings show that both genders are biased to use negatives in their election campaigns to damage f each other’s face, and both similarly succeed in using pragmatic strategies within the scope of negative spaces, with some differences to mention.

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Negation in American Discourse: A Socio-Cognitive Study

Muslah

Abbas

2022

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“…Impoliteness has been the subject of several studies examining it in various contexts (see Culpeper & Hardaker 2017, Locher & Larina 2019 including army training (Culpeper 1996), political speeches and campaign debates (Alemi & Latifi 2019, Garcia-Pastor, 2008, workplaces (Mullany 2008, Schnurr et al 2007, television quiz shows (Culpeper 2005), telephone calls between citizens and police call-takers (Tracy & Tracy 1998), and social media platforms and discourse (Demjén & Hardaker 2016, Lewandowska-Tomaszczyk & Pęzik 2021, Teneketzi 2022, Zidjaly 2019. However, research on the perception of impoliteness and response to it is in its infancy, meaning that comparatively fewer studies have explored the hearers' responses (Farnia & Sheibani 2019, Tajeddin et al 2015, Xiang et al 2020.…”

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Perception of impoliteness in refusal and response to it by native speakers of English and Persian

Tajeddin

Moqadam

2023

Russian Journal of Linguistics

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Impoliteness entails the employment of strategies oriented toward attacking face and bringing about social disruption. Although research on impoliteness has received great attention in the past two decades, how impolite utterances are perceived and what the recipients of impoliteness do in return has remained relatively under-addressed. The current study set out to examine native English and Persian speakers’ perceptions of and response to impoliteness in the production of the speech act of refusal. To this end, 90 native English speakers and 120 native Persian speakers were administered a written discourse completion task containing eight refusals that either observed politeness or contained various degrees of impoliteness. The results showed that native Persian speakers did not perceive any of the refusals to be impolite whereas three of the refusals were considered impolite by native English speakers. When reacting to impoliteness in refusals, native English speakers exploited a wider range of strategies than did Persian speakers. The results showed that social distance and power relations were of more significance for Persian speakers than for English speakers in perceiving the degree of impoliteness; however, in responding to an utterance perceived as impolite, English speakers were more likely to adopt offensive strategies to counter impoliteness, including positive and negative impoliteness strategies. These findings indicate both cross-cultural divergence and convergence in the perception of impoliteness and responses to impoliteness.

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“…Both politeness and impoliteness involve the study of communicative behavior in social interaction with a focus on situational and cultural contexts (e.g. Alemi & Latifi 2019, Bousfield 2008, Eslami 2005, Fernández-Amaya 2019, Kaul de Marlangeon 2018, Larina & Ponton 2020, Lewandowska-Tomaszczyk & Pęzik 2021, Locher 2013, Tzanne & Sifianou 2019. The discursive turn contributed to understanding the evaluative and situated nature of im/politeness, the importance of emotions in assessments and the link of identity construction with these discourse aspects (Locher & Larina 2019: 875).…”

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Identity, politeness and discursive practices in a changing world

Eslami

Larina

Pashmforoosh

2023

Russian Journal of Linguistics

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This special issue continues the discussion of the impact of culture on identity, communication, politeness, and discourse strategies (see Russian Journal of Linguistics 22 (4) 2018, 23 (4) 2019, 24 (2) 2020). The topic has become particularly relevant in the context of two multidirectional processes, i.e., globalization resulting from current geopolitical trends and technological advancements, which have encouraged the intensification of contacts between people, languages, and cultures; and deglobalization focused on the preservation of national cultures and development of a multipolar and multicultural world. In our introductory article, we attempt to trace the impact of communication technologies, language, and culture contacts on digital, face-to-face, and public communication in different settings and discourses and outline its influence on communication, language variation, and change. In this introductory article we present a summary of the contributions of our authors to the issue, which showed that the implications of globalization and language contact are multifaceted, they can have both positive and negative effects on language use, maintenance, and change, as well as on cultural identity and diversity. Pursuing these latter factors contributes to developing trends of deglobalization. Our authors invite the reader to reflect on these processes. In conclusion, we sum up their major findings and suggest a brief avenue for further research.

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The Realization of Impoliteness in Arguments between the Democrats and Republicans over the Government Shutdown Issue in the US

Cited by 8 publications

References 26 publications

Negation in American Discourse: A Socio-Cognitive Study

Negation in American Discourse: A Socio-Cognitive Study

Perception of impoliteness in refusal and response to it by native speakers of English and Persian

Identity, politeness and discursive practices in a changing world

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