Grammatical and Pragmatic Aspects of Slovenian Modality in Socially Unacceptable Facebook Comments
This paper investigates the grammatical and pragmatic uses of epistemic and deontic modal expressions in a corpus of Slovenian socially acceptable and unacceptable Facebook comments. We propose a set of modals that do not interpretatively vary in their modality type in order to enable robust corpus...
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University of Ljubljana Press (Založba Univerze v Ljubljani)
2023-09-01
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| author | Jakob Lenardič Kristina Pahor de Maiti |
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| description | This paper investigates the grammatical and pragmatic uses of epistemic and deontic modal expressions in a corpus of Slovenian socially acceptable and unacceptable Facebook comments. We propose a set of modals that do not interpretatively vary in their modality type in order to enable robust corpus searches and reliable quantification of the results. We show that deontic, but not epistemic, modals are significantly more frequent in socially unacceptable comments, and specifically that they favour violent discourse. We complement the quantitative findings with a qualitative analysis of the discursive roles played by the modals. We explore how pragmatic communicative strategies such as hedging, boosting, and face-saving arise from the underlying syntactic and semantic properties of the modal expressions, such as the modal force and clausal syntax.
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| spelling | doaj.art-284c06f07f5244b68e8fe29171e775e92024-03-29T13:42:56ZengUniversity of Ljubljana Press (Založba Univerze v Ljubljani)Slovenščina 2.0: Empirične, aplikativne in interdisciplinarne raziskave2335-27362023-09-0111110.4312/slo2.0.2023.1.33-68Grammatical and Pragmatic Aspects of Slovenian Modality in Socially Unacceptable Facebook CommentsJakob Lenardič0Kristina Pahor de Maiti1Institute of Contemporary History, Ljubljana, SloveniaFaculty of Arts, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia; Institute of Contemporary History, Ljubljana, Slovenia; CY Cergy Paris University, FranceThis paper investigates the grammatical and pragmatic uses of epistemic and deontic modal expressions in a corpus of Slovenian socially acceptable and unacceptable Facebook comments. We propose a set of modals that do not interpretatively vary in their modality type in order to enable robust corpus searches and reliable quantification of the results. We show that deontic, but not epistemic, modals are significantly more frequent in socially unacceptable comments, and specifically that they favour violent discourse. We complement the quantitative findings with a qualitative analysis of the discursive roles played by the modals. We explore how pragmatic communicative strategies such as hedging, boosting, and face-saving arise from the underlying syntactic and semantic properties of the modal expressions, such as the modal force and clausal syntax. https://journals-test.uni-lj.si/slovenscina2/article/view/12032corpus linguisticsmodalitysyntaxsemanticspragmaticshate speech |
| spellingShingle | Jakob Lenardič Kristina Pahor de Maiti Grammatical and Pragmatic Aspects of Slovenian Modality in Socially Unacceptable Facebook Comments Slovenščina 2.0: Empirične, aplikativne in interdisciplinarne raziskave corpus linguistics modality syntax semantics pragmatics hate speech |
| title | Grammatical and Pragmatic Aspects of Slovenian Modality in Socially Unacceptable Facebook Comments |
| title_full | Grammatical and Pragmatic Aspects of Slovenian Modality in Socially Unacceptable Facebook Comments |
| title_fullStr | Grammatical and Pragmatic Aspects of Slovenian Modality in Socially Unacceptable Facebook Comments |
| title_full_unstemmed | Grammatical and Pragmatic Aspects of Slovenian Modality in Socially Unacceptable Facebook Comments |
| title_short | Grammatical and Pragmatic Aspects of Slovenian Modality in Socially Unacceptable Facebook Comments |
| title_sort | grammatical and pragmatic aspects of slovenian modality in socially unacceptable facebook comments |
| topic | corpus linguistics modality syntax semantics pragmatics hate speech |
| url | https://journals-test.uni-lj.si/slovenscina2/article/view/12032 |
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