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4.2 Employment of Impoliteness Strategies..............................22

5 Conclusion................................34

5.1 Major Findings..........................34

5.2 Limitations and Future Work.......................34

4 Results and Discussion

4.1 The Frequency of Impoliteness

After classifying 5432 tweets in the corpus,it is found that Trump’s impolite tweetsaccount for 30%of the total tweets.In other words,he often intentionally manifestedimpoliteness in his tweets.

As it can be seen from the above table,new media is no longer limited to being avote-canvassing tool for elections and a platform for the government to provide officialinformation.On the contrary,it has become a new choice for Trump to convey his values and create the power of public opinion by virtue of its hidden attribute of public diplomacy anddirect communication mode.His appeal lies in communicating with ordinary people throughthe use of unfiltered,regularly updated tweets.He sent messages to the public frequently andcasually,without the need to assemble a formal written statement into a press release.

5 Conclusion

5.1 Major Findings

The results show that impoliteness is ubiquitous in Trump’s tweets(about 31%),and theimpoliteness strategies widely adopted in Trump’s discourse.More than 50%of tweets usedmultiple impoliteness strategies.Trump employed multiple impoliteness strategies in histweets,especially positive impoliteness strategy;different impoliteness strategies wereemployed in tweets,which suggests that impoliteness strategy involves meaningunderstanding,and different perspectives may lead to different interpretations.

Next,the impoliteness strategy used in tweets are mostly positive impoliteness(morethan 32%).In comparison,sarcasm or mock impoliteness is relatively less and withholdpoliteness is the least common.This finding largely conforms to the academic research ofasynchronous online discourse.

In addition,impoliteness tweets mainly express four output strategies:call the othernames，explicitly associate the other with a negative aspect,use taboo words and condescend.Among them,about 8.80%were call the other names.

Last,the pragmatic acts of impoliteness strategies in Trump’s political tweets weremainly used to explain his personal behavior and emphasize his political views,whichperformed the pragmatic role of reminding and warning the public,condemning,criticizingand mocking at his political opponents.

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