“Happy Death Day” Impoliteness of Birthday Wishes Expressed in Facebook Comments
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Impoliteness, Facebook, Computer-Mediated CommunicationAbstract
This research aims to examine causes of impoliteness found in Facebook comments below famous people’s birthday news posts. The data gathered was 1,220 comments on public birthday posts published on the official page of One News Agency during 11th August – 31st December 2021. The study discovered two categories of impoliteness triggers: conventionalized impoliteness triggers and non-conventionalized impoliteness or implicational impoliteness triggers. Conventionalized impoliteness triggers were divided into six types, namely insults, pointed criticisms/complaints, unpalatable questions and/or presuppositions, condescension, dismissals, and negative expressive. Moreover, three types of non-conventionalized impoliteness triggers were found, including the convention-driven, the form-driven, and the context-driven. The statistical data analysis showed that Facebook users applied non-conventionalized impoliteness triggers more frequently than conventionalized ones.
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