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Publication details [#61392]

Kavanagh, Barry. 2016. Emoticons as a medium for channeling politeness within American and Japanese online blogging communities. Language & Communication 48 : 53–65.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

emotional deixis | internet | language and culture | politeness | social interaction

Language as a subject

English, American | Japanese

Place, Publisher

Elsevier

Journal WWW

www.sciencedirect.com/

Annotation

It is found that Japanese blog comment writers deployed significantly more emoticons than their American counterparts to channel positive politeness strategies in relational online interaction, which defies Japan's image as negative politeness culture.