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Языковая агрессия в интернет-форумах онлайн-изданий
Verbal aggression in the internet forums of online periodicals

Author(s): Stefka Petkova-Kaleva
Subject(s): Language studies, Language and Literature Studies, Theoretical Linguistics, Communication studies, Lexis, Semantics, Pragmatics, Comparative Linguistics, Eastern Slavic Languages, Theory of Communication, Philology, Translation Studies
Published by: Шуменски университет »Епископ Константин Преславски«
Keywords: naive political discourse; Internet forum; verbal aggression; language play

Summary/Abstract: The article looks into different representations of the strategy of confrontation and aggression in online forum commentaries, viewed by the author as belonging to the genre of naive political discourse. Attention is drawn to some of the most frequent forms of verbal characterisation, such as invectives, (quasi) euphemisms, verbal modifications of personal names, and language play based on grammatical semantics. The examples are excerpted from the forums of Russian online periodicals.

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