Publications

Publication details [#58415]

Theodoropoulou, Irene. 2014. Politeness on Facebook: The case of Greek birthday wishes. Pragmatics 24 (5) : 23–45.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

internet | politeness | social network | social relationship | wish

Language as a subject

Greek

Place, Publisher

IPRA

Journal DOI

10.1075/prag

Annotation

This paper concentrates on polite (para)linguistic birthday wishes reception on behalf of 400 native Greek users of Facebook, 25 to 35 years old, as revealed in the manner they reciprocate the wishes they received from their friends.