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Publication details [#60061]

Sifianou, Maria. 2015. Conceptualizing politeness in Greek: Evidence from Twitter corpora. Journal of Pragmatics 86 : 25–30.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

behavior | computer communication system | conceptualization | message1 | politeness

Place, Publisher

Elsevier

Journal WWW

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Annotation

This article examines how politeness is conceptualized in Greek using a corpus consisting of short, naturally occurring Twitter messages (19,500 tweets). Politeness is not confined to verbal behaviour in this computer-mediated messages.