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Publication details [#58467]

Mak, Bernie Chun Nam and Hin Leung Chui. 2014. Impoliteness in Facebook Status Updates: strategic talk among colleagues “outside” the workplace. Text & Talk 34 (2) : 165–185.
Publication type
Article in journal
Publication language
English
Place, Publisher
De Gruyter

Annotation

Using Culpeper's (1996) impoliteness model and Wenger's (1998) Communities of Practice frame, this study argues that colleagues of an Italian restaurant in Hong Kong use job and relation-based speech in Facebook Status Updates after working hours and outside the workplace, thus relocating work issues and renegotiating power through impoliteness strategies imbued with Netspeak.