IDENTIFICATION AND SYSTEMATIZATION OF POLITENESS STRATEGIES IN FRENCH-LANGUAGE INTERNET DISCOURSE IN THE ASPECT OF POLITICAL CORRECTNESS AND TOLERANCE
Ekatherina D. Kalinnikova1, Vladislav E. Anisimov2
1PhD student, Department of Foreign Languages, Philological Faculty, RUDN University, Russia, kate.dk01@gmail.com
2PhD, Department of Foreign Languages, Philological Faculty, RUDN University, Russia, anisimov.vladislav.95@mail.ru
Abstract
The article examines the language means of expressing politeness in the aspect of political correctness and tolerance in the French-speaking segment of the modern Internet space. The aim of this paper is to identify and systematize the politeness strategies implemented in the modern French-language Internet discourse in the aspect of political correctness and tolerance towards certain social groups. The methods of observation, description, interpretation, sampling and quantitative data collection techniques were applied. The research is based on a corpus of small-format texts in online French-language environment (social networks) between the years 2017-2021. The total number of posts and comments is 1,518. The results of the study were the presentation of modern trends, reflecting the phenomena of tolerance and political correctness, at the linguistic and cognitive levels. The research materials can be used in teaching graduate students of universities in the framework of the study of modern culture, the culture of the modern French language, as well as in thematic language classes for the development of new lexical, linguocultural and grammatical material.
Keywords: politeness, tolerance, correctness, French-language discourse, Internet discourse.
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