TITLE:
College Students’ Use of Impoliteness Expression in the WeChat Diction
AUTHORS:
Yuying Shi
KEYWORDS:
Impoliteness Expressions, University Students, WeChat Discourse, Language Use, Linguistic Diversity
JOURNAL NAME:
Open Journal of Applied Sciences,
Vol.13 No.10,
October
31,
2023
ABSTRACT: The
purpose of this study was to investigate college students’ use of impoliteness expressions
in WeChat diction and what factors influence college students’ use of impoliteness expressions. In-depth interview was used. The
chatting records of a large WeChat group with 134 members—Hubin 12 Housings’ 2021 graduate Management
group in a comprehensive university in Wuhan in the latest month were analyzed.
10 college students who were members
of that WeChat group were interviewed. The interview was related to their inner
activities when using impoliteness expressions and what factors could influence
their use of impoliteness expressions. The results showed that college students
were more likely to use motivated impoliteness, informational impoliteness and strategic impoliteness. College students’ use of impoliteness
expressions were influenced by gender, social status and the relationship
between the speaker and the hearer. The paper could provide a new study area
for researchers. It will attract researchers’ attention on the use of impolite
language, especially among different roles of people in society.