INTERNET POLITENESS AS А CONTRIBUTING FACTOR FOR HARMONIOUS COMMUNICATION

Authors

  • Narine MADOYAN Yerevan State University

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.46991/FLHE/2016.20.3.045

Keywords:

flaming, conversational strategy, synchronous communication, asynchronous communication, linguistic politeness

Abstract

Virtual distance gives the communicators the opportunity to implement different linguistic means due to which new conversational strategies are used. Flaming is one of the aforementioned conversational strategies, which can be described as an expression of verbal aggression in the Internet discourse. The given conversational strategy is characterized by linguistic impoliteness and insults the use of which is widespread both in synchronous and asynchronous communication.

Published

2022-01-25

Issue

Section

Linguistics