Congratulation! A Case Study of Social Media Users in Jordan

Q1 Arts and Humanities

International Journal of Arabic-English Studies Pub Date : 2023-10-05 DOI:10.33806/ijaes.v24i1.564

Raeda Mofid George Ammari, Yazan Shaker Al-Mahameed, Khaleel Bader Al Bataineh, Wajed Rasmi Al Ahmad

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Abstract

The current study aims at investigating congratulation methods by Jordanian users of social media. The study also investigates the influence of culture on speech acts of congratulation. The researchers compiled a corpus consisting of (400) messages and comments from two major social media, Facebook and WhatsApp. The data were obtained from friends' and relatives' comments regarding four occasions: religious events, graduation from (school/ university), having a baby, and getting married. They were decoded and analyzed according to Elwood’s (2004) proposed taxonomy of congratulation strategies. The quantitative and qualitative approaches were employed in analyzing the data. The results of the study showed that the most frequently used strategies of congratulation were illocutionary force indicating device (IFID), the offer of good wishes, and expression of happiness combined with using the word “Allah” (God) and prayer for the benefit of the addressee due to cultural and religious background. Culture played a significant role in the results where the religious factor was evident in the majority of employed IFID.

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祝贺!约旦社交媒体用户案例研究

目前的研究旨在调查约旦社交媒体用户的祝贺方式。本研究还探讨了文化对祝贺言语行为的影响。研究人员编制了一个语料库，包括来自两大社交媒体Facebook和WhatsApp的400条消息和评论。这些数据是从朋友和亲戚关于四种情况的评论中获得的:宗教活动、毕业(学校/大学)、生孩子和结婚。根据Elwood(2004)提出的祝贺策略分类对它们进行解码和分析。采用定量和定性相结合的方法对数据进行分析。研究结果表明，由于文化和宗教背景的原因，人们最常用的祝贺策略是言外之力指示装置(IFID)、提供良好的祝愿、表达幸福并结合使用“真主”(真主)一词和为对方的利益祈祷。文化在结果中发挥了重要作用，其中宗教因素在大多数就业的IFID中很明显。

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International Journal of Arabic-English Studies Arts and Humanities-Literature and Literary Theory

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