Communicative Strategies and Tactics of Trolls-Aggressors in Computer-Mediated Communication during COVID-19 Pandemic
The article considers the aggressive communicative behaviour of a virtual linguistic personality provoking a communication conflict in the virtual space (a troll-aggressor). The data include comments retrieved from LiveJournal posts and Internet memes published during the COVID-19 pandemic. In the c...
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2022-10-01
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| author | O. Yu. Gukosyants O. A. Alimuradov Z. U. Khakiyeva |
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| description | The article considers the aggressive communicative behaviour of a virtual linguistic personality provoking a communication conflict in the virtual space (a troll-aggressor). The data include comments retrieved from LiveJournal posts and Internet memes published during the COVID-19 pandemic. In the course of the analysis, the authors reveal the communicative roles, strategies and tactics of trolls-aggressors. The common strategy of the troll’s aggressive conflict interaction in the indicated time period is the strategy of hostility which is embodied in particular strategies (micro-strategies) of discrediting and attack. It is concluded that discrediting as a micro-strategy can be implemented via a false compliment, the tactic of taunt, the tactic of insult and the tactic of blaming. The micro-strategy of attack is implemented by means of threat and indignation. Particular attention is paid to the description of the markers of the above-listed tactics observed in trolls-aggressors’ communicative behaviour. Enumeration of the tactics used for provoking conflicts in virtual environment made it possible to concretize the typology of trolls-aggressors which has been revealed in the course of empiric data analysis. As a result, the authors present a scheme which reflects the types of trolls, belonging to the general type “troll-aggressor”, and the implemented communicative strategies and tactics within the framework of the common strategy of hostility. |
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| spelling | doaj-art-fbbb1e249d7c42bf8dda666473f0c8fc2025-08-03T19:36:35ZrusTsentr nauchnykh i obrazovatelnykh proektovНаучный диалог2225-756X2227-12952022-10-0111717519610.24224/2227-1295-2022-11-7-175-1962274Communicative Strategies and Tactics of Trolls-Aggressors in Computer-Mediated Communication during COVID-19 PandemicO. Yu. Gukosyants0O. A. Alimuradov1Z. U. Khakiyeva2Pyatigorsk State UniversityPyatigorsk State UniversityA. A. Kadyrov Chechen State UniversityThe article considers the aggressive communicative behaviour of a virtual linguistic personality provoking a communication conflict in the virtual space (a troll-aggressor). The data include comments retrieved from LiveJournal posts and Internet memes published during the COVID-19 pandemic. In the course of the analysis, the authors reveal the communicative roles, strategies and tactics of trolls-aggressors. The common strategy of the troll’s aggressive conflict interaction in the indicated time period is the strategy of hostility which is embodied in particular strategies (micro-strategies) of discrediting and attack. It is concluded that discrediting as a micro-strategy can be implemented via a false compliment, the tactic of taunt, the tactic of insult and the tactic of blaming. The micro-strategy of attack is implemented by means of threat and indignation. Particular attention is paid to the description of the markers of the above-listed tactics observed in trolls-aggressors’ communicative behaviour. Enumeration of the tactics used for provoking conflicts in virtual environment made it possible to concretize the typology of trolls-aggressors which has been revealed in the course of empiric data analysis. As a result, the authors present a scheme which reflects the types of trolls, belonging to the general type “troll-aggressor”, and the implemented communicative strategies and tactics within the framework of the common strategy of hostility.https://www.nauka-dialog.ru/jour/article/view/4026computer-mediated communicationconflict discoursecommunication conflictaggressive communicative behaviourtrollingtroll |
| spellingShingle | O. Yu. Gukosyants O. A. Alimuradov Z. U. Khakiyeva Communicative Strategies and Tactics of Trolls-Aggressors in Computer-Mediated Communication during COVID-19 Pandemic Научный диалог computer-mediated communication conflict discourse communication conflict aggressive communicative behaviour trolling troll |
| title | Communicative Strategies and Tactics of Trolls-Aggressors in Computer-Mediated Communication during COVID-19 Pandemic |
| title_full | Communicative Strategies and Tactics of Trolls-Aggressors in Computer-Mediated Communication during COVID-19 Pandemic |
| title_fullStr | Communicative Strategies and Tactics of Trolls-Aggressors in Computer-Mediated Communication during COVID-19 Pandemic |
| title_full_unstemmed | Communicative Strategies and Tactics of Trolls-Aggressors in Computer-Mediated Communication during COVID-19 Pandemic |
| title_short | Communicative Strategies and Tactics of Trolls-Aggressors in Computer-Mediated Communication during COVID-19 Pandemic |
| title_sort | communicative strategies and tactics of trolls aggressors in computer mediated communication during covid 19 pandemic |
| topic | computer-mediated communication conflict discourse communication conflict aggressive communicative behaviour trolling troll |
| url | https://www.nauka-dialog.ru/jour/article/view/4026 |
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