Речевые акты как прагматические детерминанты языковой агрессии в эмоциональном шантаже
Speech Acts as Pragmatic Determinants of Verbal Aggression in Emotional Blackmail

Summary/Abstract: The subject of the given analysis is speech acts that are presented in emotional blackmail. The examples were excerpted from Internet communication. Emotinal blackmail means manipulating interlocutor by using emotions that bound the sender and the receiver. This way it becomes a hidden form of verbal aggression, which is understood as a communicative action aiming at causing negative emotional state in a maniputed person. Analyzed speech acts are those of directives (demand, warning, request and suggestion), expressives (reproach), commissives (promise) and of a commissive-directive type of speech acts — threat.

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