Divine impoliteness: How Arabs negotiate Islamic moral order on Twitter

In this paper, I examine impoliteness-oriented discourse on Arabic Twitter as a resource for the negotiation of Islamic moral order. I do so by highlighting the responses Arabs post in reaction to a tweet which attacks Islamic cultural face. As the triggering act poses an indirect request to change...

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Published in:	Russian Journal of Linguistics
Main Author:	Najma Al Zidjaly
Format:	Article
Language:	English
Published:	Peoples’ Friendship University of Russia (RUDN University) 2019-12-01
Subjects:	impoliteness moral order twitter arab identity intertextuality authoritative texts cultural face rites of moral aggression
Online Access:	http://journals.rudn.ru/linguistics/article/viewFile/22530/17616