“You’re too thick to change the station” – Impoliteness, insults and responses to insults on Twitter
This paper aims to propose a typology of replies to insults based on data retrieved from Twitter, which is ripe with offensive comments. The proposed typology is embedded in the theory of impoliteness, and it hinges on the notion of the perlocutionary effect. It assumes that what counts as an insult...
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| Language: | English |
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Constantine the Philosopher University in Nitra
2021-12-01
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| Series: | Topics in Linguistics |
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| Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.2478/topling-2021-0011 |