Face - Deconstruction in Web Logs

Seminar paper from the year 2009 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Linguistics grade: 13 Saarland University (Anglistik Amerikanistik und Anglophone Kulturen) course: Practical Explorations into Politeness language: English abstract: In this paper I will attempt an investigation of the rules of communication that count for web logs. To be more specific I will concentrate on how face-deconstruction is organized within web logs.To facilitate cognition research project and paper are organized along the following lines:First I will set up a framework for the research project. In other words I will provide a suitable definition for the object of investigation. Furthermore I will state on which web log I concentrate on. I will also describe this particular web log and clarify whether this web log is fit for investigation or not. Moreover I will determine time range and the scope of investigation. Secondly I will provide the necessary concepts ideas and define the relevant key-words.Thirdly I will develop a line of thought and a taxonomy which allows the classification of different types of face-deconstruction.Step four consists of an application of this taxonomy to the corpus of data. Finally I will conclude this paper with a short summary of my findings. The appendix I intend to provide contains the examples that were relevant to this research project and which thus show how face-deconstruction is organized within web logs.