IMPOLITENESS AND IDENTITIES IN AN ONLINE INTERACTION ON FACEBOOK: A SOCIODISCURSIVE APPROACH

Abstract The social networking websites, such as the Facebook, have become a place for political and ideological conflicts between the interlocutors, generating offensive language and identity disputes. This paper aims to present the contributions that the identity studies can provide to the impoliteness analysis (the use of language to cause offense) in online interactions. For this purpose, it proposes a qualitative and interpretative analysis of a Facebook post and its respective comments. The results suggest that the combined study between the impoliteness and identities is capable of showing that the offense processes in this online platform are normally inferential and rely on identification processes with the impoliteness in the texts.

摘要：脸书（Facebook）等社交网站已成为对话者之间爆发政治与意识形态冲突的场域，由此催生攻击性语言与身份争端。本文旨在阐释身份研究可为在线互动中的不礼貌语言分析（即借助语言实施冒犯的行为分析）提供的贡献。为此，本文拟对一则脸书帖文及其相关评论开展质性阐释分析。研究结果显示，将不礼貌语言与身份议题相结合开展研究，能够揭示该在线平台上的冒犯行为通常具有推论性，且依赖于文本中与不礼貌表达相关的身份识别过程。