Publications

Publication details [#56381]

Al Zidjaly, Najma. 2012. What has happened to Arabs? Identity and face management online. Multilingua 31 (4) : 413–439.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

discourse strategy | face maintenance | identity negotiation | news reporting | website

Language as a subject

Arabic

Place, Publisher

De Gruyter

Journal WWW

www.degruyter.com/journal/key/MULT/html

Annotation

This paper investigates how the Internet helps empowering Arab muslims to manage or save their collective face online, by analyzing the discursive strategies used in Arab response posting to the Al Jazeera website.