Divine impoliteness: How Arabs negotiate Islamic moral order on Twitter
In this paper, I examine impoliteness-oriented discourse on Arabic Twitter as a resource for the negotiation of Islamic moral order. I do so by highlighting the responses Arabs post in reaction to a tweet which attacks Islamic cultural face. As the triggering act poses an indirect request to change...
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| Language: | English |
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Peoples’ Friendship University of Russia (RUDN University)
2019-12-01
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| Series: | Russian Journal of Linguistics |
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| Online Access: | http://journals.rudn.ru/linguistics/article/viewFile/22530/17616 |