Pragmatics, (Im)Politeness, and Intergroup Communication - A Multilayered, Discursive Analysis of Cancel Culture

This Element shows the basis for pragmatics/(im)politeness to become intergroup-oriented to be able to consider interactions in which social identities are salient or are essentially collective in nature, such as Cancel Culture (CC). CC is a form of ostracism involving the collective withdrawal of support and concomitant group exclusion of individuals perceived as having behaved in ways construed as immoral and thus displaying disdain for group normativity. To analyze this type of collective phenomenon, a three-layered model that tackles CC manifestations at the macro, meso, and micro levels is used. At the meso/micro levels, problematize extant conceptualizations of CC -mostly focused on the macro level and describe it as a Big C Conversation, whose meso-level practices need to be understood as genre-ecology, and where identity reduction, im/politeness, and moral emotions synergies are key to understand group entitativity and agency.

List of contents

1. Introduction; 2. A pragmatics of intergroup communication; 3. Groups and the meso-level; 4. Macro-level analysis - cancel culture as a big c conversation; 5. Meso-level analysis - cancelation as a genre ecology; 6. Micro-level analysis; 7. Conclusions; References.

Summary

This Element shows the basis for pragmatics/(im)politeness to become intergroup-oriented to be able to consider interactions in which social identities are salient or are essentially collective in nature, such as Cancel Culture.

Product details

• Authors: Pilar G. Blitvich, Pilar G. (University of North Carolina Blitvich
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press Academic
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 29.02.2024
• EAN: 9781009184380
• ISBN: 978-1-0-0918438-0
• No. of pages: 102
• Dimensions: 155 mm x 230 mm x 5 mm
• Series: Print on demand; Elements in Pragmatics
• Subjects: Education and learning > Teaching preparation > Vocational needs; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative linguistics; LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / Semantics, Pragmatism, Social issues & processes, Communication Studies, Social attitudes, Ethical Issues: Censorship, Western Philosophy, From C 1900 -