Politeness violated : a study of selected tweets by Donald Trump
Other Title(s)
انتهاك التهذيب : دراسة تغريدات مختارة لدونالد ترامب
Joint Authors
al-Sintirisi, Muhammad Ibrahim Muhammad Said
al-Shaykhali, Khalid Abd Allah
Source
Jerash : for Research and Studies
Issue
Vol. 22, Issue 1 (30 Jun. 2021), pp.557-571, 15 p.
Publisher
Jerash University the Deanship of Scientific Research and Postgraduate Studies
Publication Date
2021-06-30
Country of Publication
Jordan
No. of Pages
15
Main Subjects
Languages & Comparative Literature
Abstract EN
ocial media, Twitter in particular, have been a tool used by politicians to voice their thoughts and make a stand.
Political figures sometimes use social media, including Twitter, as an instrument to distort the face of their rivals by employing linguistic impoliteness.
The present study aims to analyze some of President Donald Trump’s impolite tweets.
Methodologically, Brown and Levinson’s (1987) model of politeness is taken as the main reference of understanding and explaining the face-threatening acts that target the addressee’s face, and Culpeper’s (1996) framework to classify impoliteness strategies.
The data are in the form of Trump’s tweets.
The selected ten tweets, which represent the study material, belong to different stages of Trump's political career; they are tweeted before, during, and after Trump’s presidential campaign and they target different kinds of people including (politicians, actors, athletes, journalists, writers, military men, etc.) and institutions such as (governmental sections, news channels, newspapers, journals, etc.) The results show that Trump resorts heavily to negative expressions that include offensive terms and derogatory remarks as a destructive weapon of others’ self-images.
His negative characteristics (racism for example) are reflected by his choice of words
American Psychological Association (APA)
al-Shaykhali, Khalid Abd Allah& al-Sintirisi, Muhammad Ibrahim Muhammad Said. 2021. Politeness violated : a study of selected tweets by Donald Trump. Jerash : for Research and Studies،Vol. 22, no. 1, pp.557-571.
https://search.emarefa.net/detail/BIM-1343872
Modern Language Association (MLA)
al-Shaykhali, Khalid Abd Allah& al-Sintirisi, Muhammad Ibrahim Muhammad Said. Politeness violated : a study of selected tweets by Donald Trump. Jerash : for Research and Studies Vol. 22, no. 1 (Jun. 2021), pp.557-571.
https://search.emarefa.net/detail/BIM-1343872
American Medical Association (AMA)
al-Shaykhali, Khalid Abd Allah& al-Sintirisi, Muhammad Ibrahim Muhammad Said. Politeness violated : a study of selected tweets by Donald Trump. Jerash : for Research and Studies. 2021. Vol. 22, no. 1, pp.557-571.
https://search.emarefa.net/detail/BIM-1343872
Data Type
Journal Articles
Language
English
Notes
Includes bibliographical references : p. 570-570
Record ID
BIM-1343872