Publications

Publication details [#54886]

Lorenzo-Dus, Nuria, Pilar Garcés-Conejos Blitvich and Patricia Bou-Franch. 2011. On-line polylogues and impoliteness: The case of postings sent in response to the Obama Reggaeton YouTube video. Journal of Pragmatics 43 (10) : 2573–2598.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

internet | multiparty conversation | politeness | political language | video

Place, Publisher

Elsevier

Journal WWW

www.sciencedirect.com/web-editions

Annotation

This article explores impoliteness in a specific on-line polylogal context, namely that of YouTube postings, induced by the ‘Obama Reggaeton’ video, released during the 2008 US democratic primary elections.