Disagreement strategies in the online comments of The Malaysian Insider / Azimah Zainudin
This study aims to investigate the disagreement strategies and ways to mitigate disagreement in The Malaysian Insider‟s comments. This study is limited to the topic of disagreement and mitigating disagreement in an online news portal, The Malaysian Insider (TMI). For the purpose of this study, Shum...
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| description | This study aims to investigate the disagreement strategies and ways to mitigate disagreement in The Malaysian Insider‟s comments. This study is limited to the topic of disagreement and mitigating disagreement in an online news portal, The Malaysian Insider (TMI). For the purpose of this study, Shum and Lee‟s disagreement strategies (2013) and Locher‟s mitigating strategies (2004) were used as the framework. The qualitative method was employed in this study. The findings showed that disagreements were expressed by giving an opposite opinion, raising a rhetorical question, giving a negative comment, making a personal stance, reprimanding, making an ironic statement, rewording and the use of insulting words. The analysis showed that hedges, shifting responsibility, modal auxiliaries, but, giving personal or emotional reasons and token agreement were employed to mitigate disagreement |
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| spelling | my.um.stud-80572020-02-19T21:37:49Z Disagreement strategies in the online comments of The Malaysian Insider / Azimah Zainudin Azimah, Zainudin P Philology. Linguistics This study aims to investigate the disagreement strategies and ways to mitigate disagreement in The Malaysian Insider‟s comments. This study is limited to the topic of disagreement and mitigating disagreement in an online news portal, The Malaysian Insider (TMI). For the purpose of this study, Shum and Lee‟s disagreement strategies (2013) and Locher‟s mitigating strategies (2004) were used as the framework. The qualitative method was employed in this study. The findings showed that disagreements were expressed by giving an opposite opinion, raising a rhetorical question, giving a negative comment, making a personal stance, reprimanding, making an ironic statement, rewording and the use of insulting words. The analysis showed that hedges, shifting responsibility, modal auxiliaries, but, giving personal or emotional reasons and token agreement were employed to mitigate disagreement 2017-10 Thesis NonPeerReviewed application/pdf http://studentsrepo.um.edu.my/8057/1/All.pdf application/pdf http://studentsrepo.um.edu.my/8057/6/azimah.pdf Azimah, Zainudin (2017) Disagreement strategies in the online comments of The Malaysian Insider / Azimah Zainudin. Masters thesis, University of Malaya. http://studentsrepo.um.edu.my/8057/ |
| spellingShingle | P Philology. Linguistics Azimah, Zainudin Disagreement strategies in the online comments of The Malaysian Insider / Azimah Zainudin |
| title | Disagreement strategies in the online comments of The Malaysian Insider / Azimah Zainudin |
| title_full | Disagreement strategies in the online comments of The Malaysian Insider / Azimah Zainudin |
| title_fullStr | Disagreement strategies in the online comments of The Malaysian Insider / Azimah Zainudin |
| title_full_unstemmed | Disagreement strategies in the online comments of The Malaysian Insider / Azimah Zainudin |
| title_short | Disagreement strategies in the online comments of The Malaysian Insider / Azimah Zainudin |
| title_sort | disagreement strategies in the online comments of the malaysian insider / azimah zainudin |
| topic | P Philology. Linguistics |
| url | http://studentsrepo.um.edu.my/8057/1/All.pdf http://studentsrepo.um.edu.my/8057/6/azimah.pdf http://studentsrepo.um.edu.my/8057/ |
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