Grzeczność w mediach społecznościowych – projekt procedury badawczej
Politeness in Social Media: A Draft of a Research Procedure

Summary/Abstract: This paper proposes a draft of a research procedure on politeness in social media. Firstly, a justification is provided for adopting a broad understanding of politeness (as a set of linguistic and extra-linguistic ways and principles of building interpersonal relations in order to maintain communication). Secondly, the descriptive stance in researching politeness as understood in this way is advocated for and justified. In analysing politeness in social media as a pivotal research topic in media linguistics, the way in which social media can be understood is explored. Thirdly, the research procedure is designed to analyse data extracted primarily from Facebook. The stages of the analytical procedure are then put forward: (a) an analysis of the formal-stylistic patterns of language behaviour in social media (phrases of address and speech acts and genres of politeness, including their stylistic tonality), (b) an analysis of the pragmatic patterns of language behaviour (the way in which Grice’s principle of linguistic co-operation is implemented), and (c) an analysis of the socio-cultural patterns of language behaviour.

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