Face threats in threads: assessing the responses to impoliteness in Facebook comments on 1MDB

Impoliteness has become common among online users and appears to be consented by netizens. This study seeks to investigate the reaction to impoliteness from the perspective of face-threat witnesses (FTWs) in Facebook comments. Twelve news posts on Facebook regarding the 1MDB scandal in 2015 were sel...

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Main Authors: Isma Noornisa Ismail (Author), Thilagavathi Shanmuganathan (Author)
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Penerbit Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia, 2019.
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