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TRÁVNÍKOVÁ, Petra. “I know what you mean”: Agreeing as a positive politeness strategy in online discussions. In 7th Brno Conference On Linguistics Studies In English. 2016.

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Základní údaje
Originální název	“I know what you mean”: Agreeing as a positive politeness strategy in online discussions
Autoři	TRÁVNÍKOVÁ, Petra (203 Česká republika, garant, domácí).
Vydání	7th Brno Conference On Linguistics Studies In English, 2016.

Další údaje
Originální jazyk	angličtina
Typ výsledku	Prezentace na konferencích
Obor	60200 6.2 Languages and Literature
Stát vydavatele	Česká republika
Utajení	není předmětem státního či obchodního tajemství
Kód RIV	RIV/00216224:14640/16:00091047
Organizační jednotka	Centrum jazykového vzdělávání
Klíčová slova anglicky	agreeing; disagreeing; online community; positive politeness; rapport
Příznaky	Mezinárodní význam
Změnil	Změnila: Mgr. et Mgr. Petra Trávníková, Ph.D., učo 19480. Změněno: 2. 10. 2016 21:48.

Anotace
The present paper deals with the speech event of expressing agreement, a prominent positive politeness strategy (Brown and Levinson 1978, Leech 1983), via which the users of online communities promote solidarity in their forums. As opposed to agreeing in face-to-face conversation, where it is often not voiced and tends to be expressed via paralanguage or even silence, different means must be employed in computer-mediated discourse with its absent visual channel and different concept of back-channelling. The contribution aims to demonstrate the findings from an analysis conducted on a corpus comprising several threads of discussion forums dedicated to common topics discussed in online communities, mostly consisting of women users, such as dieting, infertility, pregnancy or parenting. It presents the structure of agreement, in particular how it is linked to previous discourse (especially by means of quoting and naming), and its most recurrent patterns. Contrary to the general belief that agreement is unmarked and preferred response and hence not necessarily expressed, it was a frequent strategy in the corpus. As it occurred even in situations when the speaker was not expected to agree (unsolicited agreement), it is clear that the users expresses constant agreement and emphasise sameness even without being encouraged to do so in order to stress common ground and overcome face-threatening acts caused by the delicate nature of the topics.

Anotace

The present paper deals with the speech event of expressing agreement, a prominent positive politeness strategy (Brown and Levinson 1978, Leech 1983), via which the users of online communities promote solidarity in their forums. As opposed to agreeing in face-to-face conversation, where it is often not voiced and tends to be expressed via paralanguage or even silence, different means must be employed in computer-mediated discourse with its absent visual channel and different concept of back-channelling. The contribution aims to demonstrate the findings from an analysis conducted on a corpus comprising several threads of discussion forums dedicated to common topics discussed in online communities, mostly consisting of women users, such as dieting, infertility, pregnancy or parenting. It presents the structure of agreement, in particular how it is linked to previous discourse (especially by means of quoting and naming), and its most recurrent patterns. Contrary to the general belief that agreement is unmarked and preferred response and hence not necessarily expressed, it was a frequent strategy in the corpus. As it occurred even in situations when the speaker was not expected to agree (unsolicited agreement), it is clear that the users expresses constant agreement and emphasise sameness even without being encouraged to do so in order to stress common ground and overcome face-threatening acts caused by the delicate nature of the topics.