A Tentative Study of the Impoliteness Phenomenon in Computer-mediated Communication
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Abstract
This article examines the politeness phenomenon in one particular computer-mediated communication (CMC) situation in China: synchronous private on-line chat. With the popularization of the internet, CMC has drawn the attention of many linguists and communication theorists. Some previous studies have compared computer-mediated communication (CMC) with face-to-face communication (FTF); findings reveal that CMC bears some resemblance and displays some differences from FTF communication in terms of the communication characteristics and linguistic features. Yet the politeness strategies have not received much attention in CMC. The present study aims to see whether the politeness principles based on FTF communication can be applied to CMC. The study finds that traditional politeness principles and maxims based on FTF are often violated and readapted in synchronous on-line chat; but instead of hindering the on-line communication, the violation and adaptation are found to fulfill different social and interpersonal functions in CMC, including fostering solidarity between the participants, venting one’s emotions, improving the efficiency of communication etc.. Key words: politeness; computer-mediated communication; interpersonal function; social function; QQ. Resume: Cet article examine le phenomene de politesse dans une situation particuliere de communication mediatiee par ordinateur (CMO) en Chine: le chat prive instantane en ligne. Avec la popularisation de l'Internet, la CMO a attire l'attention de beaucoup de linguistes et des theoriciens de la communication. Plusieurs etudes anterieures ont compare la communication mediatisee par ordinateur (CMO) avec la communicatin en face-a-face(FaF), dont les conclusions revelent que le CMO montre une certaine ressemblance et affiche certaines differences par rapport a la communication FaF en termes de caracteristiques de communication et des caracteristiques linguistiques. Pourtant, les strategies de politesse n'ont pas recu beaucoup d'attention dans la CMO. La presente etude vise a determiner si les principes de politesse bases sur la communication FaF peuvent etre appliques a la CMO. L'etude conclut que les principes de politesse et les maximes traditionnelles fondes sur la communication FaF sont souvent enfreints et readaptes au chat instantane en ligne, mais au lieu d'entraver la communication en ligne, la violation et l'adaptation semblent pouvoir remplir de differentes fonctions sociales et interpersonnelles dans la CMO, y compris la solidarite encouragee entre les participants, le dechargement des emotions, l'amelioration de l'efficacite de la communication etc. Mots-Cles: politesse; communication mediatisee par ordinateur; fonction interpersonnelle; fonction sociale; QQ
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Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.002 | 0.008 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.001 | 0.005 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.002 | 0.004 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.002 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
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machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
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