A pragma-structural analysis of Egyptians’ Disagreement strategies in computer-mediated communication

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Fayoum University, Faculty of Arts , Department of English language and literature

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The speech act of disagreement, though sometimes inevitable, is a relatively complex act. It has traditionally been considered a dispreferred response. Recent research, however, has shown that disagreement should no longer be perceived as a negatively marked act, but rather as a normal phenomenon in human interaction. This paper aims to investigate the strategies used by Egyptians to express the speech act of disagreement in Arabic. To pursue this end, the study employed a corpus of 30,757 words collected from Arabic Facebook pages and groups from two topic areas: society and economy. The data were classified according to a new taxonomy built upon the taxonomies of and Harb (2016).  The results of the study showed that Egyptian speakers used 11 strategies to express disagreement with different frequencies. Anatomization of these strategies revealed varying structural and pragmatic characteristics. It, also, highlighted the importance of culture to understand Egyptians' disagreement strategies in Computer Mediated-Communication (CMC)
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

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Journal of the Faculty of Arts
Volume 85, Issue 6 - Serial Number 6
July 2025 Issue: Social Sciences and Languages
July 2025

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