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Impoliteness, aggression and the moral order

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posted on 2023-08-30, 16:36 authored by Vahid Parvaresh, Tahmineh Tayebi
While studies devoted to impoliteness have been increasing in number, only scant attention has been paid to how impoliteness can be viewed as a reaction against attributes or social actions that are deemed undesirable. The current study is concerned with the relationship between ‘impoliteness’ and the notion of ‘moral order’. More specifically, we examine the aggressive comments directed towards the official Facebook page of an Iranian actress, living in exile, after posting a nude photograph of herself. We consider the impolite language used in the comments under investigation to have been occasioned by an implicature, and subsequently argue that such an aggressive language originates from a set of similar assumptions and expectations which seem to be part of the moral order. As the study reveals, considerations of impoliteness are heavily dependent upon the development of communities whose members apparently share, and demand, common beliefs and similar social values.

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Refereed

  • Yes

Volume

132

Page range

91-107

Publication title

Journal of Pragmatics

ISSN

1879-1387

Publisher

Elsevier

File version

  • Accepted version

Language

  • eng

Legacy posted date

2019-09-24

Legacy creation date

2020-02-07

Legacy Faculty/School/Department

ARCHIVED Faculty of Arts, Law & Social Sciences (until September 2018)

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