Performing acts of impoliteness through code-switching to English in colloquial Jordanian Arabic interactions

2017 ◽  
Vol 8 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Muhammad A. Badarneh ◽  
Kawakib Al-Momani ◽  
Fathi Migdadi
Keyword(s):  
Social Identity ◽  
Code Switching ◽  
Third Party ◽  
Jordanian Arabic ◽  
Rapport Management ◽  
Naturally Occurring ◽  
State Of Affairs

This article investigates how English is exploited in naturally occurring interactions in colloquial Jordanian Arabic to perform acts of impoliteness, drawing on impoliteness model by Culpeper (1996), its subsequent modifications in Culpeper et al. (2003) and Culpeper (2005), and its alignment with Spencer-Oatey’s (2002) concept of rapport-management. Attack on face, specifically Quality Face, Social Identity Face, and Association Rights, through code-switching to English were identified in the data. Positive impoliteness and negative impoliteness strategies were employed through using English, sometimes in conjunction with Arabic impoliteness resources. Furthermore, English was used as an indirect impoliteness strategy to do off-record impoliteness to convey impolite beliefs about a third party or a particular state of affairs. These acts of impoliteness were mainly countered defensively by ignoring the attack or offensively through countering the implied face attack with face attack.

Performing acts of impoliteness through code-switching to English in colloquial Jordanian Arabic interactions

2017 ◽  
Vol 8 (4) ◽  
pp. 571-600
Author(s):  
Muhammad A. Badarneh ◽  
Kawakib Al-Momani ◽  
Fathi Migdadi
Keyword(s):  
Social Identity ◽  
Code Switching ◽  
Third Party ◽  
Jordanian Arabic ◽  
Rapport Management ◽  
Naturally Occurring ◽  
State Of Affairs

Abstract This article investigates how English is exploited in naturally occurring interactions in colloquial Jordanian Arabic to perform acts of impoliteness, drawing on impoliteness model by Culpeper (1996), its subsequent modifications in Culpeper et al. (2003) and Culpeper (2005), and its alignment with Spencer-Oatey’s (2002) concept of rapport-management. Attack on face, specifically Quality Face, Social Identity Face, and Association Rights, through code-switching to English were identified in the data. Positive impoliteness and negative impoliteness strategies were employed through using English, sometimes in conjunction with Arabic impoliteness resources. Furthermore, English was used as an indirect impoliteness strategy to do off-record impoliteness to convey impolite beliefs about a third party or a particular state of affairs. These acts of impoliteness were mainly countered defensively by ignoring the attack or offensively through countering the implied face attack with face attack.

scholarly journals Social Identity Perspective on Resistance and Leadership: A Qualitative Study of Mass Protest against 16/12 Gang Rape, New Delhi

2015 ◽  
Vol 2 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
Kiran Sakkar Sudha
Keyword(s):  
Social Identity ◽  
Phenomenological Approach ◽  
Third Party ◽  
New Delhi ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Political Class ◽  
Oppositional Identity ◽  
Gang Rape ◽  
Mass Protest ◽  
Social Identity Approach

In inter disciplinary researches of social sciences, resistance as phenomena has not been explored much and conformity was considered something very natural and normal while resistance could not come to the fore. The study is a modest attempt to explore resistance following Delhi gang rape protest which is still fresh in our collective memory following social identity approach as well as sociological perspective. Semi structured interviews were conducted with 10 subjects (5 males and 5 females). Interpretive phenomenological approach was used to draw meaning out of the interview transcripts. Social identity approach outlines the following themes in understanding resistance: formation of oppositional identity, illegitimacy of the out group, affective involvement, cognitive alternatives, the role of third party etc. However, the protestors could not identify single out group to rally against which is so important in social identity, for some patriarchy as a system was out group, for some it was state machinery, political class etc. The notion of leadership was not in sync with social identity approach as the leaders were ―faceless‖ and it was ―shifting.‖ However, it was not pure resistance (Hollander & Einwohner, 2004) as there were many references to those structures by protestors against which protest was initially meant for.

scholarly journals Leaving an attacked group: Authoritative criticism decreases ingroup favoritism

2019 ◽  
Vol 13 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jianning Dang ◽  
Li Liu ◽  
Qianqian Zhang ◽  
Caina Li
Keyword(s):  
Social Identity ◽  
Social Identity Theory ◽  
Self Esteem ◽  
Intergroup Bias ◽  
Negative Evaluation ◽  
Third Party ◽  
Testing System ◽  
Social Self ◽  
Practical Implications ◽  
Ingroup Favoritism

AbstractResearch suggests people try to protect their social self-esteem from threats from the ingroup or the outgroup. However, how members react to a threat to social self-esteem from a third party remains unclear. Three studies were conducted to examine the influence of a threat to social self-esteem from an authoritative third party on ingroup favoritism. We explored the effect of negative (versus positive) evaluation from the testing system on explicit and implicit ingroup favoritism in Study 1 and Study 2 respectively. We compared the effect of negative evaluation posed by the testing system or the competitive outgroup on ingroup favoritism in Study 3. Results suggested that individuals experiencing a threat to social self-esteem from an authoritative third party manifested less ingroup favoritism than those experiencing no threat or outgroup threat. The theoretical implications of this research on social identity theory and the practical implications of reducing intergroup bias are discussed.

E-Government and Social Media: The Impact on Accessibility

2020 ◽  
Vol 31 (3) ◽  
pp. 181-191
Author(s):  
Christian Sonnenberg
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Information Access ◽  
Third Party ◽  
Section 508 ◽  
Usable Information ◽  
Current State ◽  
Accessibility Issues ◽  
The Government ◽  
State Of Affairs ◽  
The Impact

Social media is a valuable tool, providing a means of instruction, communication, and collaboration to many organizations including the government institutions that citizens rely upon. However, while important for distributing information, social media has not historically prioritized accessibility. The federal government has a duty to provide fair and usable information access for those with disabilities, but the delineation between where this responsibility lies becomes blurred when third-party platforms like social media are utilized. The extent to which social media pervades government sites and causes accessibility issues is one that is not well understood. This article presents an overview of the current state of affairs for Section 508, the implications it has for social media, and a study to evaluate the potential impact it has on all users.

Bilingual word-play in literary discourse: the creation of relational identity

2002 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
pp. 137-151 ◽  
Author(s):  
Florencia Cortés-Conde ◽  
Diana Boxer
Keyword(s):  
Social Identity ◽  
Code Switching ◽  
Sandra Cisneros ◽  
Literary Discourse ◽  
Relational Identity ◽  
Word Play ◽  
Linguistic Strategies ◽  
The Creation ◽  
New System

This article discusses linguistic manifestations of bilingual identity in the literary narratives of Woman Hollering Creek, by Chicana writer Sandra Cisneros. Of particular interest here is the little-studied phenomenon of bilingual groups’ fluid identities. We posit that relational identity (RID), which implies more fluidity than either individual or social identity, is achieved in bilingual literary discourse via such mechanisms as humourous code-switching and playing with linguistic devices. Linguistic strategies in Cisneros’ narratives show how being bilingual not only lies in the use of two languages but consists of an entirely new system which is a play on both languages. This gives the effect of humour, but also creates a solidarity with the ‘in group’, through language that is only understood by ‘we’.

‘Nostrism’: Social Identities in Experimental Games

2005 ◽  
Vol 27 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Hans Bernhard Schmid
Keyword(s):  
Social Identity ◽  
Human Behavior ◽  
Cooperative Behavior ◽  
Social Identities ◽  
Third Party ◽  
Adequate Account ◽  
Team Members ◽  
The Standard Model ◽  
Experimental Games ◽  
The Individual

AbstractIn this paper it is argued that a) altruism is an inadequate label for human cooperative behavior, and b) an adequate account of cooperation has to depart from the standard economic model of human behavior by taking note of the agents’ capacity to see themselves and act as team-members. Contrary to what Fehr et al. seem to think, the main problem of the conceptual limitations of the standard model is not so much the assumption of selfishness but rather the atomistic conception of the individual. A much-neglected question of the theory of cooperation is how the agent's social identity is determined, i.e. how individuals come to think of themselves and act as members of a group. Considering as an example one of Fehr et al.’s third party punishment experiments, I shall argue that the agents' identities (and thus the result of the experiment) are strongly influenced by the way the experiment is presented to the participants, especially by the collectivity-related vocabulary used in the instructions.

scholarly journals Walking together: behavioural signatures of psychological crowds

2018 ◽  
Vol 5 (7) ◽  
pp. 180172 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anne Templeton ◽  
John Drury ◽  
Andrew Philippides
Keyword(s):  
Social Identity ◽  
Safety Management ◽  
Computer Models ◽  
Collective Behaviour ◽  
Naturally Occurring ◽  
Behavioural Effects ◽  
Crowd Behaviour ◽  
Crowd Psychology ◽  
Crowd Movement

Research in crowd psychology has demonstrated key differences between the behaviour of physical crowds where members are in the same place at the same time, and the collective behaviour of psychological crowds where the entire crowd perceive themselves to be part of the same group through a shared social identity. As yet, no research has investigated the behavioural effects that a shared social identity has on crowd movement at a pedestrian level. To investigate the direction and extent to which social identity influences the movement of crowds, 280 trajectories were tracked as participants walked in one of two conditions: (1) a psychological crowd primed to share a social identity; (2) a naturally occurring physical crowd. Behaviour was compared both within and between the conditions. In comparison to the physical crowd, members of the psychological crowd (i) walked slower, (ii) walked further, and (iii) maintained closer proximity. In addition, pedestrians who had to manoeuvre around the psychological crowd behaved differently to pedestrians who had to manoeuvre past the naturally occurring crowd. We conclude that the behavioural differences between physical and psychological crowds must be taken into account when considering crowd behaviour in event safety management and computer models of crowds.

Sociocultural linguistic approaches to code switching in Japanese women’s talk in interaction: Region, gender, and language

Multilingua ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 39 (6) ◽  
pp. 685-720
Author(s):  
Holly HK Didi-Ogren
Keyword(s):  
Contextual Information ◽  
Methodological Approach ◽  
Theoretical Perspective ◽  
Code Switching ◽  
Data Set ◽  
Naturally Occurring ◽  
Close Analysis ◽  
Regional Dialect ◽  
Linguistic Approach ◽  
Linguistic Approaches

AbstractThis article takes a sociocultural linguistic approach to code switching in investigating discursive functions of shifts between Standard Japanese and a regional dialect (Iwate Dialect) in women’s activity-centered, naturally occurring interactions. The paper extends previous scholarship to a consideration of how shifts are used for discursive functions such as expressing or seeking alignment; provides support for taking a talk-in-interaction theoretical perspective on code switching; and articulates a basis of support for this theoretical perspective by suggesting a methodological approach that combines close analysis of stretches of talk (DA/CA) with contextual information that informs our understanding of such talk (ethnography of communication). Furthermore, the paper illustrates the intersection of gender, region, and competing language ideologies; and contributes to the lacuna of language-in-use research on dialects in Japan. Excerpts are drawn from a data set of naturally-occurring interactions compiled over two years of fieldwork in Iwate Prefecture, Japan.

Fostering civility and politeness awareness in professional discourse: Critical genre analysis of course books in professional communication

2020 ◽  
Vol 16 (2) ◽  
pp. 305-329
Author(s):  
Alcina Pereira de Sousa
Keyword(s):  
Real Life ◽  
Professional Communication ◽  
Service Encounter ◽  
Management Skills ◽  
Professional Discourse ◽  
Course Materials ◽  
Rapport Management ◽  
Naturally Occurring ◽  
Politeness Strategies ◽  
Selection Of

AbstractThis paper aims to analyse a set of communicative events within the service encounter genre in tourism and leisure interdiscursive domains as displayed in course books on professional communication in English (commonly pointing to ESP). These supposedly replicate interaction in real life settings. Therefore, it is relevant to uncover the ways authentic interactions can be interpreted in the pedagogical setting of workplace conversation from a discursive and pragmatic perspective. More specifically, this empirical and exploratory study discusses ways of improving rapport management skills in interpersonal and intercultural communication, in general, and in professional interaction, in particular, in a selection of excerpts on greeting / asking for info exchanges. The study uncovers participants’ possible co-constructions of civility and politeness strategies in naturally occurring classroom discourse supported by course materials in English for glocal communication across segments in the tourism domain as object of this study.

scholarly journals Le code-switching comme ressource pour l'organisation de la parole-en-interaction

2007 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 168-197 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lorenza Mondada
Keyword(s):  
Detailed Analysis ◽  
State Of The Art ◽  
Code Switching ◽  
Social Categories ◽  
Interactional Linguistics ◽  
Naturally Occurring ◽  
Social Settings ◽  
Interactional Perspective ◽  
General Linguistics ◽  
Definition Of

AbstractThe aim of the paper is both to present existing research in interactional linguistics and to highlight some broader issues it raises for general linguistics. Thus, code-switching is dealt with not just as a particular phenomenon, but as a key area of study revealing important contemporary issues for linguistics.Plurilingualism has been approached from several perspectives: among them, the interactional approaches have focussed their inquiries on code-switching as it can be observed in naturally occurring interactional materials, recorded in various social settings. This empirical base has been fruitful for the exploration not only of the socio-pragmatic functionalities of code-switching but also for a redefinition of the grammatical resources involved in the organization of talk-in-interaction. In order to present these contributions, the paper will sketch some approaches coming from a broad interactional perspective, and develop more explicitly the approach inspired by conversation analysis.This leads us to formulate a series of issues to which code-switching can contribute in a powerful way :- issues dealing with the very definition of what the grammatical resources are: code-switching is not just the use of two or more codes by the speakers, but involves the active reconfiguration of what a "code" or, better, what a grammatical resource can be - as a flexible, indexical resource endogenously and locally redefined by the speakers for the practical purposes of the interaction.- issues dealing with the accomplishment of identities and social categories in interaction, dealt with as the emergent product of locally organized socio-linguistic practices;- issues dealing with the organization of sequentiality of talk-in-interaction : the way in which code-switching is mobilized both adjust and shape the interactional order and can teach us much about it.These issues are discussed by referring to the state of the art of this field and to the detailed analysis of a few excerpts of naturally occurring interactions recorded at work.

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