Complimenting as a rapport-building positive politeness
strategy in online communities

k 2016

Complimenting as a rapport-building positive politeness strategy in online communities

TRÁVNÍKOVÁ, Petra

Základní údaje

Originální název

Complimenting as a rapport-building positive politeness strategy in online communities

Autoři

TRÁVNÍKOVÁ, Petra

Vydání

Languages for Life: Educational, Professional and Social Contexts. Association for Language Awareness. Vienna. 2016

Další údaje

Jazyk

angličtina

Typ výsledku

Prezentace na konferencích

Obor

60200 6.2 Languages and Literature

Stát vydavatele

Rakousko

Utajení

není předmětem státního či obchodního tajemství

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Ano

Kód RIV

RIV/00216224:14640/16:00090459

Organizační jednotka

Centrum jazykového vzdělávání

Klíčová slova anglicky

linguistic politeness; complimenting; positive politeness; face threat; online community; asynchronous computer - mediated communication

Příznaky

Mezinárodní význam

Změněno: 31. 7. 2016 22:00, Mgr. et Mgr. Petra Trávníková, Ph.D.

Anotace

V originále

Over the past 25 years, the Internet has become a global communication network connecting millions of users, who form myriad online communities. The paper intends to explain how members of asynchronous online communities, discussion boards, cooperate by means of complimenting, which is a powerful positive politeness strategy used to express mutuality and claim common ground. Compliments have a primarily social function creating and/or enhancing solidarity and rapport; they are even referred to as “social lubricants”. The communities under examination discuss women’s” topics, such as dieting, infertility, pregnancy and mothering. The quantitative and qualitative analysis of a self -compiled corpus consisting of several discussion threads on these topics has shown that complimenting is one of the most frequent strategies applied by interlocutors. It has also revealed distinct semantic and syntactic patterns, as compliments are highly formulaic and rather poor in their linguistic realizations. Further on, attention will be paid to the context of compliments to find out whether the fact that Internet users communicate merely via text will be of significance here. Traditionally, women are said to compliment on appearance, whereas men on performance or possessions. The last part of the presentation will touch upon responses to compliments, representing the second part of an adjacency pair, again in comparison with face -to-face communication. Contrary to compliments, responses to them represent a severe face-threat and are related to negative politeness.

Citovat

TRÁVNÍKOVÁ, Petra. Complimenting as a rapport-building positive politeness strategy in online communities. In Languages for Life: Educational, Professional and Social Contexts. Association for Language Awareness. Vienna. 2016.

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   booktitle = {Languages for Life: Educational, Professional and Social Contexts. Association for Language Awareness. Vienna.},
   keywords = {linguistic politeness; complimenting; positive politeness; face threat; online community; asynchronous computer - mediated communication},
   language = {eng},
   title = {Complimenting as a rapport-building positive politeness strategy in online communities},
   year = {2016}
}

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N2  - Over the past 25 years, the Internet has become a global communication network connecting millions of users, who form myriad online communities. The paper intends to explain how members of asynchronous online communities, discussion boards, cooperate by means of complimenting, which is a powerful positive politeness strategy used to express mutuality and claim common ground. Compliments have a primarily social function creating and/or enhancing solidarity and rapport; they are even referred to as “social lubricants”. The communities under examination discuss women’s” topics, such as dieting, infertility, pregnancy and mothering. The quantitative and qualitative analysis of a self -compiled corpus consisting of several discussion threads on these topics has shown that complimenting is one of the most frequent strategies applied by interlocutors. It has also revealed distinct semantic and syntactic patterns, as compliments are highly formulaic and rather poor in their linguistic realizations. Further on, attention will be paid to the context of compliments to find out whether the fact that Internet users communicate merely via text will be of significance here. Traditionally, women are said to compliment on appearance, whereas men on performance or possessions. The last part of the presentation will touch upon responses to compliments, representing the second part of an adjacency pair, again in comparison with face -to-face communication. Contrary to compliments, responses to them represent a severe face-threat and are related to negative politeness.
ER  -

TRÁVNÍKOVÁ, Petra. Complimenting as a rapport-building positive politeness strategy in online communities. In \textit{Languages for Life: Educational, Professional and Social Contexts. Association for Language Awareness. Vienna.}. 2016.

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