Speech behavior of an Internet troll in online communication.

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2017

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Університет імені Альфреда Нобеля

Анотація

The phenomenon of Internet trolling has been considered in the article. The definition «Internet troll» has been drawn out and the history of the notion has been traced. Such aspects as aggression, success, disruption, and deception have been analysed in the context of the given question. Means of verbal aggression have been defined: character attacks, competence attacks, self-concept attacks, intentionally vague or ambiguous yet implicit threats, insults, malediction, scolding, teasing, mockery, verbal use of force, profanity, verbal abuse.

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T he amount of social data on the Web is increasing infinitely and online social networking is becoming one of the most prevalent means of expression worldwide. Websites like Twitter, YouTube and Blogger are providing an efficient way to link different parts of the world and also different classes of the global society. Together with the positive aspects of the Internet, people who sow discord on the Internet by starting arguments or upsetting people, by posting inflammatory, extraneous, or off-topic messages in an online community with the deliberate intent of provoking readers into an emotional response or of otherwise disrupting normal on-topic discussion have come into our life under the name «trolls» [1]. Thus, analisys of speech behavior of people making emotional attacks on a person or a group through malicious and vulgar comments in order to provoke response (referred to as Internet trolls) is the objective of the article.

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trolling, online communication, speech behavior, Internet slang, verbal aggression, discourse, networking, online community.

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