Mythonyms as a Means of Expressing Verbal Aggression Online – The Ten Baidu Mythical Creatures Cover Image

Митонимите като средство за речева агресия в интернет пространството – Десетте Байду митологични същества
Mythonyms as a Means of Expressing Verbal Aggression Online – The Ten Baidu Mythical Creatures

Author(s): Elitsa Milanova
Subject(s): Social Sciences, Education, Pedagogy
Published by: Великотърновски университет „Св. св. Кирил и Методий”
Keywords: Ten Baidu Mythical Creatures; verbal aggression; mythonyms; profanity

Summary/Abstract: This paper studies mythonyms in their invective function. The research aims to find different types of verbal aggression in the Internet discourse and to present and analyze the case of the ten Baidu Mythical Creatures. These are fictional mythological creatures, devised as a form of protest against Chinese online censorship.

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