ISSN: 2265-6294

Impoliteness in Online Comments in The Johnny Depp and Amber Heard Trial

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Alaa Noori Jabbar,Nesaem Mehdi Al-Aadili

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This research examines the impoliteness strategies and conventionalized impoliteness formulae in online comments in the Johnny Depp and Amber Heard Trial. Employing Culpeper’s (2011) impoliteness theory and Culpeper’s (2010 conventionalized impoliteness formulae, this research tries to reveal that these strategies and formulae which are effective linguistic devices that can strengthen the impolite propositional content of the message by lowering the authoritativeness and definitiveness of the comment and by signaling the subthemes which are instilled in the commenter’s mind while motivating him to express his ideas towards the domestic abusive case.

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