Affiliation:
1. Hellenic Air Force Academy
Abstract
Abstract
This paper analyses a snapshot of a conflictive Greek YouTube polylogue dealing with the issue of public online
female nudity and the norms pertaining to both the act itself and its verbal critique. The said polylogue contains a markedly high
proportion of lay (im)politeness/(in)appropriateness evaluations (Locher and Watts
2005). By quantifying and critically analyzing key lexical impoliteness (Culpeper
2011) and metapragmatic markers contained in the evaluations, I identify the ways in which the norms of online verbal
behaviour are discursively negotiated amongst the polylogue participants, focusing especially on the arguments and justifications
underlying the suggested norms. It is found that, firstly, the notions of (im)politeness/(in)appropriateness emerge as open to
fierce, yet heavily argument-supported discursive dispute; secondly, sexualized slang functions both as an object of critique and
as an extremely versatile rhetorical instrument serving metapragmatic argumentation; and, thirdly, online
(im)politeness/(in)appropriateness is construed not as a superficial matter of netiquette, but as a deeply ethical and
political-ideological controversy, especially regarding speech liberty and political correctness.
Publisher
John Benjamins Publishing Company
Subject
Surfaces and Interfaces,Communication,Language and Linguistics
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