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Fredrick Friday John and Nobuhle Ndimande-Hlongwa
political elites engage in bitter communicative exchanges and conflict-related banter that result in impoliteness. This study investigated interactional banter among sociopolitical actors to identify the triggers and discourse features … impoliteness. A qualitative design was used. Six online conflict-related video posts involving four sociopolitical agents were purposively selected and downloaded from YouTube, where they were posted to reach millions
Onyedikachi A. Okodo and Godwin Chibueze Didigwu
language to negotiate power, construct identities, and shape public perception. This study examines strategic impoliteness as a persuasive resource in Nyesom Wike's political discourse, arguing that his confrontational rhetoric … qualitative, corpus-informed discourse-analytical approach, the study draws on Culpeper's (2011) impoliteness theory and Reyes' (2011) strategies of legitimization to identify Wike's impoliteness strategies and the persuasive
Chidi Nwankwo, Kenneth Ahaiwe and Chuka Ononye
this gap, this study empirically investigates the pragmatic features and socio-political functions of impoliteness in online user comments responding to media reports declaring the winner of the 2019 Nigerian … Reporters. Adopting a qualitative socio-cognitive approach grounded in Jonathan Culpeper’s (2011) pragmatic impoliteness framework, a working corpus of 180 comments organised into 25 interactional frames was purposively sampled
Chidi Nwankwo, Clementina Okoye and Chuka Ononye
satisfaction with campaign moves have not enjoyed as much scholarly attention. The paper explores impoliteness strategies and linguistic forms deployed by the Nigerian Online Community (NOC) to interrogate the 'Balablu … Word with line numbers, and subjected to pragmatic analysis, with insights from Culpeper’s impoliteness formulae and aspects of lexical semantics discourse. Four impoliteness strategies are revealed: negative impoliteness, positive
Abiola Mary Oladipo, Christian Chidubem Ugwu and Martha Omoseye Adurota
This study examines impoliteness strategies in the X (formerly Twitter) posts of political party supporters during the 2023 Nigerian presidential campaigns and accounts for the contextual factors underlying impoliteness … explores how impoliteness functions in political discourse and party-related communication on social media. The study adopts Culpeper’s (1996) five impoliteness strategies to qualitatively analyse 9 purposively selected posts