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It’s not difficult to realize that each of these situations illustrate uncivil behavior. Exam-ples of uncivil communication in everyday life occur in various forms of social media, on the playing field, in the grocery store, and on campus. Uncivil behavior is also a common occurrence in politics.
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Apr 3, 2017 · In regard to individual predictors, females and those who scored higher on the personality trait of agreeableness were more likely to perceive the speech acts to be uncivil, whereas respondents who self-identified as being conservative were less likely to perceive the statements as being uncivil.
- Kate Kenski, Kevin Coe, Stephen A. Rains
- 2020
Jun 27, 2024 · Papacharissi (Citation 2004) notes that impoliteness is a violation of conversational contract, whereas [public-level] incivility is a set of speech acts that deny personal freedoms or stereotype social groups, thus threatening the negative collective face and the democratic goals.
Jun 19, 2020 · Absolutely not. Recent evidence argues that uncivil speech acts have moved from these elite spaces, trickling down into the general public. Continuous exposure to political incivility has ...
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Incivility in public discourse has become a pressing concern of citizens and scholars alike, but most research has focused narrowly on incivility in elite discourse. The present study examines how the lay public perceives incivility, using two surveys to track differences in perceptions of specific types of uncivil speech and identify predictors of...
Research Question 1 asked about individual characteristics—demographics, personal-ity traits, and news habits—that might be associated with perceived incivility. Hierarchical ordinary least squares (OLS) regression models were tested to answer this question. An overall model was tested in which the measures of perceived incivil-ity for each of the ...
The authors thank Dr. Jakob D. Jensen for his generosity, which allowed us the opportunity to collect the primary data.
The authors declared no potential conflicts of interest with respect to the research, authorship, and/or publication of this article.
The authors received no financial support for the research, authorship, and/or publication of this article.
This chapter examines how the lay public perceives incivility in online comments, using an online survey to track differences in perceptions of specific types of uncivil speech. This chapter focuses on name-calling, vulgarity, lying accusations, pejoratives for speech, and aspersion.
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Jul 3, 2007 · Whereas an act of speech is any act of uttering meaningful words, ‘speech act’ is a term of art. As a first approximation, speech acts are those acts that can (though need not) be performed by saying that one is doing so.
