Abstract
This article is a brief literature review about the research that has emerged in recent years concerning (im)politeness and facework strategies carried out in social networks. We have analyzed how the key areas identified by Spencer-Oatey (2000) in her rapport management model have been studied: the illocutionary, the participatory, the stylistic and the discursive scopes. It will allow us to demonstrate how social networks promote the emergence of new channels of interaction through computer-mediated communication which have been pointed out by researchers in discourse analysis.
Highlights
Hace ya un lustro Locher (2010, p. 3) advertía de que the majority of texts published on computer-mediated communication to date have not focused on politeness or impoliteness issues per se
Researchers have mainly employed Brown and Levinson’s (1987 [1978]) model to discuss the character of facethreatening instances
7 “The findings reveal that despite a ‘noisy’ environment and an interface that is not especially conducive to conversational use, short, dyadic exchanges occur relatively often, along with some longer conversations with multiple participants that are surprisingly coherent
Summary
A pesar del carácter virtual del discurso mediado por ordenador y del anonimato en el que tienen lugar muchos de los intercambios en las redes sociales, estos se han convertido en corpus sumamente prolíficos para el estudio de las interacciones comunicativas desde un enfoque sociopragmático.
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