Polilog w mediach społecznościowych – tematyczna struktura tekstu a grzeczność językowa
Polylogue in social media – thematic text structure vs linguistic politeness

Summary/Abstract: The aim of the article is to show the thematic structure of the social media polylogueas an indication of linguistic politeness. The article is a contribution to the discussionabout the way of understanding linguistic politeness. It assumes that one of the patternsof behaviour that are part of linguistic politeness is the cooperative principle (in Grice’sview). The social media polylogue was analysed in terms of the relationship betweenlinguistic politeness and the thematic structure. The undertaken analyses have shownthat comments comprising the polylogue respect the maxim of relevance, while compliancewith the subject is achieved as a result of formulating direct and indirect acts of speech.As a result of scrutinising reactions to a manifest deviation from the subject, it has beenfound that the interpretation consisting in connecting the deviation from the maximof relevance to the problem of linguistic politeness is possible, but requires further studies.

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