Pragmatics, (Im)Politeness, and Intergroup Communication
A Multilayered, Discursive Analysis of Cancel Culture
Published on 7. February 2024
102 pages
978-1-009-20472-9 (ISBN)
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This Element shows the basis for pragmatics/(im)politeness to become intergroup-oriented to be able to consider interactions in which social identities are salient or are essentially collective in nature, such as Cancel Culture (CC). CC is a form of ostracism involving the collective withdrawal of support and concomitant group exclusion of individuals perceived as having behaved in ways construed as immoral and thus displaying disdain for group normativity. To analyze this type of collective phenomenon, a three-layered model that tackles CC manifestations at the macro, meso, and micro levels is used. At the meso/micro levels, problematize extant conceptualizations of CC -mostly focused on the macro level and describe it as a Big C Conversation, whose meso-level practices need to be understood as genre-ecology, and where identity reduction, im/politeness, and moral emotions synergies are key to understand group entitativity and agency.
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English
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Cambridge
United Kingdom
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2,89 MB
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978-1-009-20472-9 (9781009204729)
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Pilar G. Blitvich
Pragmatics, (Im)Politeness, and Intergroup Communication
A Multilayered, Discursive Analysis of Cancel Culture
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02/2024
Cambridge University Press
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Pilar G. Blitvich
Pragmatics, (Im)Politeness, and Intergroup Communication
A Multilayered, Discursive Analysis of Cancel Culture
Book
02/2024
Cambridge University Press
€24.00
Shipment within 15-20 days
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1. Introduction; 2. A pragmatics of intergroup communication; 3. Groups and the meso-level; 4. Macro-level analysis - cancel culture as a big c conversation; 5. Meso-level analysis - cancelation as a genre ecology; 6. Micro-level analysis; 7. Conclusions; References.
