Incivility in online political discussion represents one of the most widely debated issues among scholars. Much research focuses on incivility disseminated by elites social media, paying less attention to user that spreads as a “bottom-up” reaction politicians’ posts. To fill this gap, article comments Facebook pages parliamentary candidates run-up Italian general election 2018. Distinguishing ...

Abstract This paper embarks on a functional analysis of impolite language use in discussions about the response to pandemic Covid-19 official Facebook page Swedish national public television broadcaster spring 2020. Having combined existing models impoliteness ( Culpeper 2016 ) with Appraisal theory Martin and White 2005 both quantitative qualitative investigation, study finds remarkable differ...

A threefold inscription scratched on a tile found in the surroundings of Reggio Calabria, dating back to late 2nd century BCE, evidences for insults addressed slaves employed local pottery. Both context and abusive terms point controversy broken out among colleagues within place work. The offensive words reveal Greek-Latin bilingualism, which Latin plays role language first learned used everyda...

This research analyses the type of figurative language (sarcasm or mock; impoliteness is used to perform face threatening acts with use politeness strategies that are obviously insincere and thus remain surface relizations satire; desire precisely clear still an audience protest which intends be describe painful absurd situations foolish wicked persons groups as vividly possible ) in songs domi...

In the last decades, studies on politeness have discussed central concepts stemming from Brown and Levinson’s work ([1978] 1987), such as face , threats mitigations strategies of . One problems that study presents for analysis a situated corpus speech is use mentioned notions calls socio-cultural perspective. other words, it necessary to include extralinguistic factors in politeness, phenomena ...