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Emerging Online Politeness Patterns

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This chapter provides a systematic analysis of the results derived from the analysis of the exchanges on the asynchronous discussion forums linked to the tasks designed for the telecollaborative CoCo project. Brown and Levinson’s (Politeness: Some universals in language usage, Cambridge University Press, 1987) and Leech’s (The pragmatics of politeness, Oxford University Press, 2014) linguistic politeness frameworks were applied to the three online exchanges students engages with and were used to identify patterns of linguistic behaviour such as type and frequency of politeness strategy/maxim.

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Orsini-Jones, M., Lee, F. (2018). Emerging Online Politeness Patterns. In: Intercultural Communicative Competence for Global Citizenship. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-58103-7_6

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