A Genre Approach to the Study of Im-politeness
TL;DR: The authors argue that impoliteness is used to create rapport between the interviewer and the overhearing audience, and that incivility toward those guests who differ ideologically from the audience has to be assessed as rapport building, and seen as constitutive rather than disruptive of communal life.
Abstract: This paper argues that genre notions, as understood by (Fairclough, 2003), can provide an overarching unit of analysis to accommodate both top-down and bottom-up analyses of impoliteness. These notions are here applied to the study impoliteness within an institutional genre: news interviews. Impoliteness is seen as the driving force behind a new genre, "news as confrontation", whose communicative goal is to reaffirm a view of the world. The multifunctionality of impoliteness in this context has been related to a mismatch between the introduction of impoliteness as a novel staple in the news as confrontation shows, and the unchanged social expectations of politeness as the default term in social interaction. At the level of the relationship between interviewee and interviewer, impoliteness manifests itself both at the lexico-grammatical level and interactionally. However, impoliteness is used to create rapport between the interviewer and the overhearing audience. Thus, incivility toward those guests who differ ideologically from the audience has to be assessed as rapport building, and seen as constitutive rather than disruptive of communal life. I provide two examples of the new genre by providing an in-depth analysis of two interviews by Bill O'Reilly for Fox News' The O'Reilly Factor the epitome of news as confrontation shows.
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TL;DR: In this article, it is argued that an analysis of im/politeness as social practice necessitates a move away from a simplistic speaker-hearer model of interaction to a consideration of the broader participation framework within which they arise, and the positioning of the analysts vis-a-vis that participation order.
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TL;DR: In this article, the authors investigate impoliteness in a particular on-line polylogal setting -YouTube postings (c. 13,000 words) triggered by the ‘Obama Reggaeton’ video, which was released during the 2008 US democratic primaries.
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TL;DR: This article examines coherence in a corpus of YouTube postings in Spanish and examines the conversational potential of this facility through which YouTubers share and negotiate opinions.
Abstract: Since YouTube was launched, its emblematic video-sharing facility has attracted considerable attention as a social networking system of cultural production In addition to vlogging, YouTube offers a text facility through which YouTubers share and negotiate opinions However, research into the latter is scarce, especially within language-based disciplines (Androutsopoulos & Beiβwenger 2009; Zelenkauskaite & Herring 2008) This article contributes to addressing this imbalance by focusing on YouTube text-based ‘conversation’ (Herring 2010a) Specifically, it examines coherence in a corpus of YouTube postings in Spanish Although coherence has been the object of much academic debate in other forms of computer-mediated communication, no empirical analysis of coherence in YouTube text has been undertaken to date Results underline the conversational potential of this facility © 2012 Wiley Periodicals, Inc
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27 Apr 2017TL;DR: In this paper, the authors introduce the reader to how people use ritual in interpersonal interaction and the interface that exists between ritual and politeness and impoliteness, and provide the first (im)politeness-focused interactional model of ritual.
Abstract: Ritual is popularly associated with ceremonies, though in real life it plays a significantly more important role, reinforcing what people perceive as the appropriate moral order of things, or challenging what they perceive as the inappropriate flow of events. This book introduces the reader to how people use ritual in interpersonal interaction and the interface that exists between ritual and politeness and impoliteness. As rituals have a large impact on the life of people and communities, the way in which they use politeness and impoliteness in a ritual action significantly influences the way in which the given ritual is perceived. Politeness, Impoliteness and Ritual examines this complex relationship by setting up a multi-layered analytic model, with a multidisciplinary approach which will appeal to interaction scholars, politeness researchers, social psychologists and anthropologists, and moral psychologists. It fills an important knowledge gap and provides the first (im)politeness-focused interactional model of ritual.
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