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Publication details [#57414]

Lee, Cynthia and Winnie Shum. 2013. (Im)politeness and disagreement in two Hong Kong Internet discussion forums. Journal of Pragmatics 50 (1) : 52–83.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

disagreeing | discussion | internet | politeness | pragmatics

Place, Publisher

Elsevier

Journal WWW

www.sciencedirect.com/web-editions

Annotation

This study on (im)politeness and disagreement strategies in two Hong Kong Internet discussion forums distinguishes eleven disagreement strategy types, mainly direct and unmitigated yet politic. Three relational work parameters appeared statistically correlated.