Negative Politeness in German Online Communication on Reddit

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The article analyzes the strategies of negative politeness, as well as the verbal means of its implementation in German online communication on Reddit. Moreover, the author investigates the tactics of request, advice and their realization in posts and comments. The author indicates syntax, morphological, estimative and semantic phenomena with serve for implementation of negative politeness as social practices of Internet communication.

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Slavyana Yuryevna Imber

Moscow State Linguistic University

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Email: yanaimber@yandex.ru

Senior Lecturer at the Department Linguistics and Professional Communication in Law, Institute of International Law, Moscow State Linguistic University

Russian Federation

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