To whom are we polite : an examination of people’s politeness of disagreement messages amongst friends and strangers

• Main Author: Wong, Jody Chin Sing
• Other Authors: Jung Younbo
• Format: Theses and Dissertations
• Language: English
• Published: 2018
• Subjects: DRNTU::Social sciences::Communication::Audience research; DRNTU::Social sciences::Communication::Public opinion
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/82268; http://hdl.handle.net/10220/46629
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

This study examines people’s politeness of disagreement messages amongst friends and strangers in the offline and online environment, using the politeness framework of Brown and Levinson (1987). It aimed also to identify goal-states that people have when they disagree with a very specific and releva...