Samuel Bourgeois
Biographic Data
| ID | 9420052 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Samuel Bourgeois |
| GIVEN NAMES | Samuel |
| FAMILY NAME | Bourgeois |
| SIGNATURE | BOURGEOIS S |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Neuchâtel |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-1736-1622 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 4 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 4 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Accounting for (strategically) ambiguous facework using Trump as a case study
Archer’s (2015. Slurs, insults, (backhanded) compliments and other strategic facework moves. Language Sciences 52. 82–97) Goffman-inspired facework scale was designed to capture both overt im/politeness and, more importantly, strategically ambivalent facework strategies that afford users a level of plausible deniability, allowing them to manipulate others’ views of their target(s) without being found to have acted impolitely (Archer 2011. Cross-e…
‘Just saying it like it is’
This article pursues two main research aims. First, it examines how two politicians running for president in 2016 strategically drew on stereotypical tropes of Metropolitan New Yorkers to characterize themselves as brash and argumentative ‘tough guys’ from New York City and North New Jersey respectively in an effort to project strength and effectiveness as leaders. Second, it tests the extent to which Donald Trump’s abrasive persona was truly uni…
On the conventionalization of impoliteness formulae
Insults are a well-recognized form of conventionalized impoliteness, yet little research explores their proliferation and conventionalization. This study analyzes Trump’s initial use of fake news as an insult during and after a 2017 press conference, followed by a diachronic examination of his usage of it on X (then Twitter) through January 2021. Through these two case studies, fake news is shown to have rapidly evolved into a conventionalized in…
Intersubjectification in constructional change
This paper addresses constructional change in a dialogical construction that is illustrated by utterances such as sarcastic much? , which typically serve the purpose of an interactional challenge. Drawing on web-based corpus data, we argue that this construction is currently undergoing a process of change that expands its range of possible uses. Specifically, we observe the emergence of uses with a different intersubjective function, in which the…
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Intersubjectification in constructional change
This paper addresses constructional change in a dialogical construction that is illustrated by utterances such as sarcastic much? , which typically serve the purpose of an interactional challenge. Drawing on web-based corpus data, we argue that this construction is currently undergoing a process of change that expands its range of possible uses. Specifically, we observe the emergence of uses with a different intersubjective function, in which the…
On the conventionalization of impoliteness formulae
Insults are a well-recognized form of conventionalized impoliteness, yet little research explores their proliferation and conventionalization. This study analyzes Trump’s initial use of fake news as an insult during and after a 2017 press conference, followed by a diachronic examination of his usage of it on X (then Twitter) through January 2021. Through these two case studies, fake news is shown to have rapidly evolved into a conventionalized in…
Accounting for (strategically) ambiguous facework using Trump as a case study
Archer’s (2015. Slurs, insults, (backhanded) compliments and other strategic facework moves. Language Sciences 52. 82–97) Goffman-inspired facework scale was designed to capture both overt im/politeness and, more importantly, strategically ambivalent facework strategies that afford users a level of plausible deniability, allowing them to manipulate others’ views of their target(s) without being found to have acted impolitely (Archer 2011. Cross-e…
‘Just saying it like it is’
This article pursues two main research aims. First, it examines how two politicians running for president in 2016 strategically drew on stereotypical tropes of Metropolitan New Yorkers to characterize themselves as brash and argumentative ‘tough guys’ from New York City and North New Jersey respectively in an effort to project strength and effectiveness as leaders. Second, it tests the extent to which Donald Trump’s abrasive persona was truly uni…
Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies (3 works) · Discourse Analysis in Language Studies (2 works) · Argumentative (1 work) · Assertion (1 work) · Blame (1 work) · Computer Science (1 work) · Dialogic (1 work) · Dialogical self (1 work) · Donald Trump (1 work) · Erving Goffman (1 work)