Politeness in Instagram: The Employment of Gratitude Speech Act by Male and Female English and Persian Users
The present research scrutinized the use of politeness strategies in gratitude expressions of English and Persian users of Instagram. For that purpose, 200 gratitude posts were collected, 100 of which belonged to English users and the other 100 posts were composed by Persian users of Instagram. This...
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| description | The present research scrutinized the use of politeness strategies in gratitude expressions of English and Persian users of Instagram. For that purpose, 200 gratitude posts were collected, 100 of which belonged to English users and the other 100 posts were composed by Persian users of Instagram. This investigation alsoevaluated gender roles in the production of gratitude utterances. Seeking to discover the politeness patterns for each language on Instagram, the data were analyzed based on Brown and Levinson's (1987) taxonomy of positive and negative politeness strategies. The findings suggested some differences in the use of the second (Exaggeration), the forth (Use of in-group identity markers), and seventh (Presuppose/raise/assert common ground) positive politeness strategies, and the seventh negative politeness strategy (Impersonalizing the speaker and the hearer) between the English and Persian users which might be due to some existent cultural transfer, and regarding the gender investigation, no significant differences were observed between females and males of each language. This is indicative of the idea that Instagram has turned into a distinguished genre of language possessing certain features such as gender-free, direct, and intimate language. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-60d45f773a524175a8df9283efb1b7d32022-12-21T23:03:53ZengIslamic Azad University, Isfahan BranchResearch in English Language Pedagogy2588-32592538-42442021-01-019112310.30486/relp.2020.1897275.1197677748Politeness in Instagram: The Employment of Gratitude Speech Act by Male and Female English and Persian UsersRasoul Mohammad Hosseinpur0Zeinab Sadat Mousavi1English Department, Faculty of Humanities, University of Qom, Qom, IranEnglish Department, Faculty of Humanities, University of Qom, Qom, IranThe present research scrutinized the use of politeness strategies in gratitude expressions of English and Persian users of Instagram. For that purpose, 200 gratitude posts were collected, 100 of which belonged to English users and the other 100 posts were composed by Persian users of Instagram. This investigation alsoevaluated gender roles in the production of gratitude utterances. Seeking to discover the politeness patterns for each language on Instagram, the data were analyzed based on Brown and Levinson's (1987) taxonomy of positive and negative politeness strategies. The findings suggested some differences in the use of the second (Exaggeration), the forth (Use of in-group identity markers), and seventh (Presuppose/raise/assert common ground) positive politeness strategies, and the seventh negative politeness strategy (Impersonalizing the speaker and the hearer) between the English and Persian users which might be due to some existent cultural transfer, and regarding the gender investigation, no significant differences were observed between females and males of each language. This is indicative of the idea that Instagram has turned into a distinguished genre of language possessing certain features such as gender-free, direct, and intimate language.http://relp.khuisf.ac.ir/article_677748_dcba30129233d0356ec1264b9bbcf6e1.pdfcomputer-mediated communicationgendergratitudeinstagrampoliteness strategies |
| spellingShingle | Rasoul Mohammad Hosseinpur Zeinab Sadat Mousavi Politeness in Instagram: The Employment of Gratitude Speech Act by Male and Female English and Persian Users Research in English Language Pedagogy computer-mediated communication gender gratitude politeness strategies |
| title | Politeness in Instagram: The Employment of Gratitude Speech Act by Male and Female English and Persian Users |
| title_full | Politeness in Instagram: The Employment of Gratitude Speech Act by Male and Female English and Persian Users |
| title_fullStr | Politeness in Instagram: The Employment of Gratitude Speech Act by Male and Female English and Persian Users |
| title_full_unstemmed | Politeness in Instagram: The Employment of Gratitude Speech Act by Male and Female English and Persian Users |
| title_short | Politeness in Instagram: The Employment of Gratitude Speech Act by Male and Female English and Persian Users |
| title_sort | politeness in instagram the employment of gratitude speech act by male and female english and persian users |
| topic | computer-mediated communication gender gratitude politeness strategies |
| url | http://relp.khuisf.ac.ir/article_677748_dcba30129233d0356ec1264b9bbcf6e1.pdf |
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