self-depreciation

English

Etymology

From self- +‎ depreciation. Commonly used until the 1980s, and is now a minor (although still acceptable) variation of self-deprecation.

Noun

self-depreciation (uncountable)

  1. Alternative spelling of self-deprecation.
    • 2023, Li, H.X., Liu, J.Y. and Zhang, X.Y., “A Pragmatic Study of Self-Depreciation in Social Media Context”, in Open Access Library Journal‎[1]:
      Recent years have seen renewed interest in pragmatic research within the realm of social media platforms. This article collected self-depreciation discourse as the linguistic data on the platform of “Xiaohongshu” to investigate the themes, strategies and causes by the use of the thematic and discourse analysis method. The findings of this study reveal that the themes of self-depreciation discourse prominently focus on competence and achievement. The pragmatic strategies can be divided into three types, namely, explicit, modified, and implicit self-denigration. The phenomenon of self-depreciation is influenced by traditional perception, social environment, and the context of the internet. This paper aims to make a valuable contribution to the research in the field of internet pragmatics.

Usage notes

  • "Self-depreciation" is an older form of "self-deprecation", and was seen as "more proper", but started disappearing after the 1980s.[1] Nowadays, "self-deprecation" is the dominant version with "self-depreciation" seen as a minor (but still acceptable[2]) variant. Sometimes, "self-depreciation" may be wrongly perceived as an error, and the matter should be clarified if any confusion were to arise.

References

  1. ^ https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=self-deprecation%2Cself-depreciation&year_start=1800&year_end=2022&corpus=en&smoothing=6&case_insensitive=true
  2. ^ “self-depreciation”, in Cambridge English Dictionary, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: Cambridge University Press, 1999–present.
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