The conventionalisation of mock politeness in Chinese and British online forums.

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dc.contributor.authorWang, Jiayi
dc.contributor.authorTaylor, Charlotte
dc.date.acceptance2018-09-28
dc.date.accessioned2021-06-23T11:28:33Z
dc.date.available2021-06-23T11:28:33Z
dc.date.issued2018-11-16
dc.descriptionThe file attached to this record is the author's final peer reviewed version. The Publisher's final version can be found by following the DOI link.en
dc.description.abstractWhile much cross-cultural and cross-linguistic analysis centres on difference because it is so often what is salient in miscommunication, we argue that we need to be more aware of similarity. Drawing on corpus-assisted discourse studies, we aim to uncover similarities in the pragmatic processes across two languages/cultures, more specifically, the shared developments in the conventionalisation of apparently polite forms for impolite functions used in British and Chinese forum communities within the last decade or so. The case studies which have been selected for analysis are 'hehe' in Chinese and 'HTH' [hope that helps] in British English. In both cases, these items had previously been identified as potentially mock polite through their presence in meta-discussions of im/politeness within the forums themselves. Our analysis shows how the items become pragmaticalised within specific contexts, while remaining unaffected in others, displaying both diachronic and synchronic variation in the degree of conventionalisaton of mock politeness which they express. The differentiation between the expected behaviours in different areas of the forums (collaborative or combative) and correlation with the mock polite usage also helps explain how it is that users orient towards the conventionalised meaning even when it is still relatively low frequency compared to polite usage, i.e. low frequency but high saliency.en
dc.exception.ref2021codes254aen
dc.funderNo external funderen
dc.identifier.citationWang, J. and Taylor, C. (2019) The conventionalisation of mock politeness in Chinese and British online forums. Journal of Pragmatics, 142, pp.270-280.en
dc.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.1016/j.pragma.2018.10.019
dc.identifier.issn0378-2166
dc.identifier.urihttps://dora.dmu.ac.uk/handle/2086/21039
dc.language.isoenen
dc.peerreviewedYesen
dc.publisherElsevieren
dc.subjectPragmaticsen
dc.subjectMock politenessen
dc.subjectConventionalisationen
dc.subjectOnline forumsen
dc.subjectBritish Englishen
dc.titleThe conventionalisation of mock politeness in Chinese and British online forums.en
dc.typeArticleen

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