Analysis of impoliteness and mock impoliteness in Facebook exchanges of a selected millennial group

• Main Author: Rivera, Adonis D.
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Animo Repository 2021
• Subjects: Politeness (Linguistics); Courtesy; Generation Y; Online social networks; Content analysis (Communication); Social interaction; Education
• Online Access: https://animorepository.dlsu.edu.ph/etdm_deal/3; https://animorepository.dlsu.edu.ph/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1000&context=etdm_deal
• Institution: De La Salle University

This paper investigated the impoliteness and mock impoliteness strategies employed by a millennial Facebook (FB) group in their interactional exchanges based on Culpeper’s (2011) and Haugh and Bousfield’s (2012) frameworks, respectively. Gender, themes, and languages used by the interlocutors in the...