Twitter and the Real Academia Española: perspectives on impoliteness

2021 ◽  
Vol 0 (0) ◽  
Author(s):  
Dale A. Koike ◽  
Victor Garre León ◽  
Gloria Pérez Cejudo
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Individual Differences ◽  
Second Order ◽  
Spanish Language ◽  
Point Scale ◽  
The Real ◽  
Face To Face ◽  
Background Experiences ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Real Academia

Abstract This study presents first- and second-order approaches to impoliteness as found in the Twitter feed of the Real Academia Española, the official Spanish-language institution of the Hispanic world. We argue that impoliteness must be viewed from the perspective of the individual, reflecting their background experiences and knowledge, while also acknowledging norms of their communities. We collected 56 reactive tweets in threads among different users, generating dialogues of different opinions of (dis)agreement. Fourteen participant-viewers rated each user’s tweet and provided judgments and comments on the impoliteness on a 5-point scale. Our results indicate some commonalities among subgroups in terms of politeness norms (e.g., insults), but also show individual differences in terms of expectations (e.g., not doing one’s job). The results suggest the limitations of previous impoliteness frameworks, which apply mostly to face-to-face interactions. Our research points to a need to develop a framework of impoliteness to account for the complexity of the interactions in social media and consider an analysis at individual and community levels.

scholarly journals Selfies as expressively authentic identity performance

First Monday ◽  
2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Linh Nguyen ◽  
Kim Barbour
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Focus Group ◽  
Theoretical Frameworks ◽  
Self Identity ◽  
Face To Face ◽  
Digital World ◽  
Online Social Media ◽  
Social Media Platforms ◽  
The Individual ◽  
The University

This paper explores whether or not our online social media persona is viewed as authentic. The selfie is a fundamental part of the structure of the online identity for young people in today’s digital world. The relationship between an individual’s self-identity in the physical face-to-face environment was analysed and compared to a carefully constructed, modified virtual representation in a selfie posted on social media platforms. Data was obtained through four focus groups at the University of Adelaide. Two key theoretical frameworks provide a basis for this study: Erving Goffman’s concept of the self as a performance, and Charles Horton Cooley’s concept of the looking glass self. In examining the focus group discussions in light of these two frameworks as well as associated literature, we conclude that the authenticity of the selfie as a way of visualising a social media persona is subjective and dependent on the individual posting a selfie. Ultimately, authenticity involves a degree of subjectivity. It was on this basis that focus group participants argued that selfies could be considered authentic expressions of identity.

scholarly journals Ethnic Identity and Acculturation Orientation of Chinese Yi Villagers in the Context of Social Media

2021 ◽  
Vol 8 (4) ◽  
pp. 109
Author(s):  
Yuan Shuangyun
Keyword(s):  
Social Support ◽  
Social Media ◽  
Ethnic Identity ◽  
Individual Differences ◽  
Positive Impact ◽  
Widespread Application ◽  
Acculturation Orientation ◽  
The Individual ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Predictive Effect

In the information age, the widespread application of social media will impact the ethnic identity and acculturation of ethnic minority individuals. In this study, 522 Yi people from different Yi branches were selected to investigate the relationship between their ethnic identity and acculturation orientation and the role of social media and social support. The results showed that :(1) the acculturation patterns of Yi villagers were mainly integrated, and experienced from separation to integration, then assimilation and marginalization after mixed; (2) The individual differences of acculturation orientation were significant, but the individual differences of ethnic identity were not; (3) Ethnic identity had a positive impact on original acculturation attitude but had no significant effect on mainstream acculturation attitude; (4) Social media had a negative predictive effect on the original acculturation attitude, a positive predictive effect on the mainstream acculturation attitude, and a negative moderating effect on the relationship between ethnic identity and original acculturation attitude; (5) Social support has a positive predictive effect on both acculturation attitudes. Therefore, the government and relevant departments should strengthen social media's popularization in pure Yi areas, enhance social support in mixed areas, and improve education and economic development to improve the acculturation of the Yi villagers effectively.

scholarly journals A A Politeness Analysis on Teachers Voices, A Pragmatics Study

2019 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 116-133
Author(s):  
Syafrianto SM
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Graduate Students ◽  
English Language ◽  
Professional Group ◽  
Virtual Communication ◽  
The Real ◽  
Face To Face ◽  
Language Studies

Politeness is a visible feature in communication. A conversation is regarded as a polite conversation and an impolite one occasionally. The context is a meaningful aspect to acknowledge this meaning. It covers age, situation, place, relationship, etc. Mode of communication may also be acknowledged as a context. Along with the globalization era, mode of communication also grows and thrives to be diverse modes such as telephone and social media which enable people to communicate in face-to-face communication. One of the renowned modes is Facebook. In Facebook, as it is known that there are miscellaneous areas of people creating some groups to communicate where one may post or/ and comment on other’s wall. What the members do in point of fact is like what they do in the real conversation. As in the real society, they should also consider how to be polite in virtual communication. Thus, this paper is to discuss the politeness principles & strategies in Facebook conversation. The excerpts of the conversation are obtained from a professional group named Teachers Voices (TV). The group's members were academicians such as lecturers, teachers, graduate students and others who are interested in English language studies.

scholarly journals Selebgram: Meraih Popularitas melalui Cyberspace

2018 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 48
Author(s):  
Sakinah - Sakinah
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Real World ◽  
Media Communication ◽  
The Real ◽  
Face To Face ◽  
Public Figures ◽  
Search Field ◽  
Audio Information

Media communication began to shift toward cyber media with the presence of various kinds of social media as a form of modern communication which not only can share audio information, but also images and video, including Instagram. Uploaded content can be appreciated by netizens who then create public figures in social media instagram, called Selebgram. This article is focused on how netizens categorize selebgram and what selebgrams’ strategies to become popular and how they maintain their popularity. The study shows that netizens categorize a person as a selebgram not only based on the number of followers, the number of likers and comments on the uploaded content, taking endorsement, but also appear in the search field. Some selebgram use fake account provider to get more followers instantly, others beautifying the uploaded content, channelling hobbies, and into coincidental programming. To maintain their followers, a selebgram uploads content by following and creating trends, uploading periodically to update the content of their timeline and utilizing the offered endorsement. It is also found that interaction between selebgram and their followers is more active in Instagram (i.e. comment and direct message) than face to face interaction. Followers even tend to feel reluctant to directly greet, take picture or ask for signature of the selebgram in the view of the fact that selebgram is a celebrity of Instagram, not celebrity in the real world.

Prepositional semantics and metaphoric extensions

2005 ◽  
Vol 3 ◽  
pp. 300-324
Author(s):  
Carmen Guarddon Anelo
Keyword(s):  
Cognitive Linguistics ◽  
Spanish Language ◽  
Spanish Speakers ◽  
The Real ◽  
Working Hypothesis ◽  
Real Academia

In this paper we analyze the semantics of the Spanish preposition desde. This analysis is developed within the cognitive linguistics framework. First, we establish the central uses of this category, using a corpus created from examples provided by Spanish speakers. Then, we examine the uses of this preposition that respond to a metaphoric extension. According to my working hypothesis, these metaphoric uses are derived from the topological schema that underlies all the uses of this preposition. The metaphoric extensions of this preposition have been gradually and only partially accepted by the ‘Real Academia de la Lengua’ and other linguistic authorities. However, there exits a use based on a metaphoric transfer which is ignored by traditional treatments. Furthermore, this use is explicitly defined as incorrect by the dictionary of the Spanish language Clave. We will show that this use is consistent with the topological schema that has given rise to the rest of the metaphoric uses of desde and thus should be treated as another valid use of this category.

Less in-person social interaction with peers among U.S. adolescents in the 21st century and links to loneliness

2019 ◽  
Vol 36 (6) ◽  
pp. 1892-1913 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jean M. Twenge ◽  
Brian H. Spitzberg ◽  
W. Keith Campbell
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Social Interaction ◽  
Digital Media ◽  
Media Use ◽  
Extracurricular Activity ◽  
Social Media Use ◽  
Individual Level ◽  
Face To Face ◽  
Nationally Representative ◽  
The Individual

In nationally representative samples of U.S. adolescents (age: 13–18) and entering college students, 1976–2017 ( N = 8.2 million), iGen adolescents in the 2010s (vs. previous generations) spent less time on in-person (face-to-face) social interaction with peers, including getting together or socializing with friends, going to parties, going out, dating, going to movies, and riding in cars for fun. College-bound high school seniors in 2016 (vs. the late 1980s) spent an hour less a day engaging in in-person social interaction, despite declines in paid work and little change in homework or extracurricular activity time. The results suggest that time displacement occurs at the cohort level, with in-person social interaction declining as digital media use increased, but not at the individual level, where in-person social interaction and social media use are positively correlated. Adolescents’ feelings of loneliness increased sharply after 2011. Adolescents low in in-person social interaction and high in social media use reported the most loneliness.

“It’s a mix of authenticity and complete fabrication” Emotional camping: The cross-platform labor of the Real Housewives

2020 ◽  
pp. 146144482097502
Author(s):  
Evie Psarras
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Reality Television ◽  
Branding Strategy ◽  
The Real ◽  
Cross Platform ◽  
Popular Interest ◽  
The Cross ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Real Housewives

Despite popular interest in reality television, social media, and self-branding, much scholarship focuses on a single platform and places the burden of self-branding on the individual alone. Drawing on 6 years of research into the Real Housewives (RH) franchise and interviews with “Housewives,” I focus on the women’s performances of identity and self-branding across platforms. This article demonstrates that the women of RH become experts at working the system that exploits them via a form of labor I conceptualize as “emotional camping.” Successfully branded “Housewives” tend to be (1) dedicated to Bravo, (2) inclined to present as walking GIFs on Instagram, and (3) seemingly authentic. I argue this self-branding strategy affords these women a semblance of privacy in their highly public careers. These findings are a critique of and feminist mediation into the legitimate labor reality stars do for networks and themselves across platforms.

Theoretical fundamentals of studying a foreign language in the formation of an individual trajectory of higher education

2021 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 721-728
Author(s):  
Iryna Postolenko ◽  
Iryna Shvetsova ◽  
Olga Kondrashova ◽  
Viktoriia Husak ◽  
Tetyana Dniprovska ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Individual Differences ◽  
Foreign Language ◽  
Teaching English ◽  
The Real ◽  
Reflective Study ◽  
The Individual

The aim this paper is to determine the individual trajectory of the organization of teaching English, considering the individual differences of students and the level of development of their ability to learn. This bibliographical and reflective study used the specialized literature as support and reinforced arguments to prove its hypothesis as the final result: “to teach a foreign language will be effective if the system of didactic and educational means used in the lesson corresponds to the aims of the activity, the real cognitive capabilities of the group, individual students, groups of students”.

DERADICALISATION IDEAS IN SOCIAL MEDIA THROUGH THE RELIGIOUS-MULTICULTURAL THERAPY APPROACH TO THE DA'WAH CULTURE

2020 ◽  
Vol 24 (1) ◽  
pp. 58
Author(s):  
Anwar Hafidzi
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Real World ◽  
Environmental Conditions ◽  
Islamic Law ◽  
Research Tool ◽  
Therapy Approach ◽  
The Real ◽  
Multicultural Therapy ◽  
Online Social Media ◽  
Library Research

This research begins with an understanding of the endemic radicalism of society, not only of the real world, but also of various online social media. This study showed that the avoidance of online radicalism can be stopped as soon as possible by accusing those influenced by the radical radicality of a secular religious approach. The methods used must be assisted in order to achieve balanced understanding (wasathiyah) under the different environmental conditions of the culture through recognizing the meaning of religion. The research tool used is primarily library work and the journal writings by Abu Rokhmad, a terrorist and radicalise specialist. The results of this study are that an approach that supports inclusive ism will avoid the awareness of radicalization through a heart-to-heart approach. This study also shows that radical actors will never cease to argue dramatically until they are able to grasp different views from Islamic law, culture, and families.Keywords: radicalism, deradicalization, multiculturalism, culture, religion, moderate.Penelitian ini berawal dari paham radikalisme yang telah mewabah di masyarakat, bukan hanya di dunia nyata, bahkan sudah menyusup di berbagai media sosial online. Penelitian ini menemukan bahwa cara menangkal radikalisme online dapat dilakukan pencegahan sedini mungkin melalui pendekatan konseling religius multikultural terhadap mereka yang terkena paham radikal radikal. Diantara teknik yang digunakan adalah melalui pemahaman tentang konsep agama juga perlu digalakkan agar memunculkan pemahaman yang moderat (wasathiyah) diberbagai keadaan lingkungan masyarakat. Metode yang digunakan untuk penelitian ini adalah library research dengan sumber utama adalah karya dan jurnal karya Abu Rokhmad seorang pakar dalam masalah terorisme dan radikalisme. Temuan penelitian ini adalah paham radikalisasi itu dapat dihentikan dengan pendekatan hati ke hati dengan mengedepankan budaya yang multikultural. Kajian ini juga membuktikan bahwa pelaku paham radikal tidak akan pernah berhenti memberikan argumen radikal kecuali mampu memahami perbedaan pendapat yang bersumber dari syariat Islam, lingkungan sosial, dan keluarga.Kata kunci: radikalisme, deradikalisasi, multikultural, budaya, agama, moderat.

Motivating Exercise Through Social Media: Is a Picture Always Worth a Thousand Words?

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Caitlyn Johnston ◽  
William E. Davis
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Individual Differences ◽  
Experimental Design ◽  
Health Behaviors ◽  
Media Content ◽  
Exercise Motivation ◽  
Positive Health ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Within Subjects

In the present study, we examined how the influence of exercise-related social media content on exercise motivation might differ across content type (with images vs. without images) and account type (individual vs. corporate). Using a 2 × 2 within-subjects experimental design, 229 participants viewed a series of 40 actual social media posts across the four conditions (individual posts with images, corporate posts with images, individual posts without images, and corporate posts without images) in a randomized order. Participants rated the extent to which they felt each social media post motivated them to exercise, would motivate others to exercise, and was posted for extrinsic reasons. Participants also completed other measures of individual differences including their own exercise motivation. Posts with images from individuals were more motivating than posts with images from corporations; however, corporate posts without images were more motivating than posts without images from individuals. Participants expected others to be similarly motivated by the stimuli, and perceived corporate posts as having been posted for more extrinsic reasons than individuals’ posts. These findings enhance our understanding of how social media may be used to promote positive health behaviors.

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