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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 … party-related communication on social media. The study adopts Culpeper’s (1996) five impoliteness strategies to qualitatively analyse 9 purposively selected posts on X attributed to supporters of the three
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 … with insights from Culpeper’s impoliteness formulae and aspects of lexical semantics discourse. Four impoliteness strategies are revealed: negative impoliteness, positive impoliteness, bald on-record impoliteness, and mock politeness
Fredrick Friday John and Nobuhle Ndimande-Hlongwa
impolite attacking strategies, namely, accusing, insulting, undermining, mocking, threatening, and mocking, and three counter-impoliteness strategies, namely, debunking, substantiating, and contrasting positions, were bidirectionally used by sociopolitical actors in political
Onyedikachi A. Okodo and Godwin Chibueze Didigwu
impoliteness theory and Reyes' (2011) strategies of legitimization to identify Wike's impoliteness strategies and the persuasive work they perform before the electorate. Findings show that Wike frequently employs bald