SPEECH AGGRESSION IN THE INTERNET MEDIATED COMMUNICATION

Abstract

The article deals with the Internet communication which is considered as a process of mutual information exchange between individuals using verbal and non-verbal communication systems, computer-mediated communication, which opens a new dimension in human communication and makes it possible to store and quickly transfer large amounts of information, use of audio and video channels in on-line communication, that is, linear direct contact with the respondent. The article outlines a destructive communicative intent in the form of verbal aggression in different types of Internet communication. The emphasis is laid on the manifestation of social aggression in the works of national and foreign researchers. The article covers the difference of such expressive, aggressive forms of online interaction as trolling, flaming,and cyberbulling in social networks and popular sites and offers a typology of the most common types of trolling, flaming and cyberbulling. It is determined that virtual communication with violation of ethics in networking is used in the process of personalized communication between parties interested in more recognition, publicity or epatage, and in the anonymous user interaction, which is made without the possibility of identifying the real subject of virtual communication in order to control the lives of others, to manipulate their mood and behavior and to satisfy one’s desires.