Abstract
The aim of this study is to present a detailed interpretation of the speech acts of posts and responses in the discourse analysis on Facebook. The research was handled on 20 posts of Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton and 20 responses of public people for each post. The conversations were between politicians and public people. The chosen methods were quantitative and qualitative analysis. The results indicate that the politicians’ posts were direct rather than indirect in relation to the speech act. Then, the responses by the hearers were also more direct than indirect. Also, the results indicate that the usages of the locution, illocution and perlocution speech acts were followed by the politicians and the hearers successfully. The study suggests further research could be carried out in the field of politeness strategies in posts and responses.
Highlights
People are expressing themselves with their words
Do politicians and public people tend to be more direct or indirect in the speech acts on Facebook? The aim and objectives of the research In order to analyse politicians’ and public people’s communication on Facebook, this study aims to present a detailed interpretation of the speech acts of posts via discourse analysis
Posts were taken from Facebook status updates of politicians and responses to these posts were taken from comments to the posts
Summary
Words refer to many meanings while explaining ideas, thoughts and concepts. People mostly mean much more than their words do. We sometimes mean something different from what our words say, as what it means refers to something else. The study which deals with the meaning of speech is referred to as pragmatics. It is a recent phenomenon in linguistics. Online communication is a form of communication, and people use many different tools on the Internet to share some thoughts or message to other people who are using the same tools. The data of the web-written communication, which is going to be gathered during the research procedure, is a great example of politicians’ and public people manner to communicate
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