Face threats in threads: assessing the responses to impoliteness in Facebook comments on 1MDB

Impoliteness has become common among online users and appears to be consented by netizens. This study seeks to investigate the reaction to impoliteness from the perspective of face-threat witnesses (FTWs) in Facebook comments. Twelve news posts on Facebook regarding the 1MDB scandal in 2015 were s...

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Main Authors:	Isma Noornisa Ismail, Thilagavathi Shanmuganathan
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Language:	English
Published:	Penerbit Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia 2019
Online Access:	http://journalarticle.ukm.my/14008/ http://journalarticle.ukm.my/14008/ http://journalarticle.ukm.my/14008/1/31816-115965-1-PB.pdf

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spelling	ukm-140082020-01-24T00:05:07Z http://journalarticle.ukm.my/14008/ Face threats in threads: assessing the responses to impoliteness in Facebook comments on 1MDB Isma Noornisa Ismail, Thilagavathi Shanmuganathan, Impoliteness has become common among online users and appears to be consented by netizens. This study seeks to investigate the reaction to impoliteness from the perspective of face-threat witnesses (FTWs) in Facebook comments. Twelve news posts on Facebook regarding the 1MDB scandal in 2015 were selected, and impolite comment threads that were reactions to the news were extracted. Fifty-two threads were found to contain impolite comments targeted at non-participants of this interaction, thus corresponding to the characteristics of face-threat witnesses. Dobs and Blitvich’s (2013) model for participant response options, Culpeper’s (2011, 2016) Conventionalised Impoliteness Formulae (CIF) and Bousfield’s (2007) list of defensive counter-strategies were used to analyse the responses. Impolite responses by the FTWs were found to be atypical. Denying the opposition either via being offensive or defensive subjugated the preference in the findings, though offensive appeared more prominently. Apart from deny opposition, corroborate opposition, and react, the current study also discovered new categories for the response options which did not fit in any of the categories, hence labelled as Distinct Features. The FTWs not only sanctioned impoliteness, but initial impoliteness in their responses, despite being ‘other-directed'. Penerbit Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia 2019 Article PeerReviewed application/pdf en http://journalarticle.ukm.my/14008/1/31816-115965-1-PB.pdf Isma Noornisa Ismail, and Thilagavathi Shanmuganathan, (2019) Face threats in threads: assessing the responses to impoliteness in Facebook comments on 1MDB. 3L; Language,Linguistics and Literature,The Southeast Asian Journal of English Language Studies., 25 (4). pp. 34-50. ISSN 0128-5157 http://ejournals.ukm.my/3l/issue/view/1230
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description	Impoliteness has become common among online users and appears to be consented by netizens. This study seeks to investigate the reaction to impoliteness from the perspective of face-threat witnesses (FTWs) in Facebook comments. Twelve news posts on Facebook regarding the 1MDB scandal in 2015 were selected, and impolite comment threads that were reactions to the news were extracted. Fifty-two threads were found to contain impolite comments targeted at non-participants of this interaction, thus corresponding to the characteristics of face-threat witnesses. Dobs and Blitvich’s (2013) model for participant response options, Culpeper’s (2011, 2016) Conventionalised Impoliteness Formulae (CIF) and Bousfield’s (2007) list of defensive counter-strategies were used to analyse the responses. Impolite responses by the FTWs were found to be atypical. Denying the opposition either via being offensive or defensive subjugated the preference in the findings, though offensive appeared more prominently. Apart from deny opposition, corroborate opposition, and react, the current study also discovered new categories for the response options which did not fit in any of the categories, hence labelled as Distinct Features. The FTWs not only sanctioned impoliteness, but initial impoliteness in their responses, despite being ‘other-directed'.
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author	Isma Noornisa Ismail, Thilagavathi Shanmuganathan,
spellingShingle	Isma Noornisa Ismail, Thilagavathi Shanmuganathan, Face threats in threads: assessing the responses to impoliteness in Facebook comments on 1MDB
author_facet	Isma Noornisa Ismail, Thilagavathi Shanmuganathan,
author_sort	Isma Noornisa Ismail,
title	Face threats in threads: assessing the responses to impoliteness in Facebook comments on 1MDB
title_short	Face threats in threads: assessing the responses to impoliteness in Facebook comments on 1MDB
title_full	Face threats in threads: assessing the responses to impoliteness in Facebook comments on 1MDB
title_fullStr	Face threats in threads: assessing the responses to impoliteness in Facebook comments on 1MDB
title_full_unstemmed	Face threats in threads: assessing the responses to impoliteness in Facebook comments on 1MDB
title_sort	face threats in threads: assessing the responses to impoliteness in facebook comments on 1mdb
publisher	Penerbit Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia
publishDate	2019
url	http://journalarticle.ukm.my/14008/ http://journalarticle.ukm.my/14008/ http://journalarticle.ukm.my/14008/1/31816-115965-1-PB.pdf
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Face threats in threads: assessing the responses to impoliteness in Facebook comments on 1MDB

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