TACTICS OF CONFLICT DEVELOPMENT IN INTERNET COMMUNICATION DURING THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC
https://doi.org/10.18384/2310-7278-2023-1-58-66
Abstract
Aim. We analyze scenarios of conflict interaction while discussing topics pertaining to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Methodology. Contexts (more than 375 comment threads published during the COVID-19 pandemic and extracted from Live Journal posts) as a semantic whole in terms of the presented language means are studied based on lingua-stylistic and componential semantic analysis. Motives and intentions are identified using the pragma-linguistic analysis. Content-analysis ensures that the context of the examined content (namely the situation of the COVID-19 pandemic) is discussed as part of modeling the functional specifics of words and their semantics. Use is made of a descriptive method to generalize, systematize, classify, and interpret the obtained results. This method characterizes speech moves and behavior in conflict development tactics. The reconstruction of tactics of conflict development in Internet communication during the COVID-19 pandemic is provided using the linguistic modeling method.
Results. We have identified three main conflict development tactics observed in the empiric data corpus: conflict escalation, conflict accommodation, and conflict neutralization. The features of users’ communicative behavior and linguistic means of each of the indicated tactics are determined.
Research implications. The theoretical significance of the presented classification description is determined by the need to diagnose the development of conflict in Internet-mediated communication in time and to prevent the development of conflict in specific speech situations.
Keywords
Internet-mediated communication,
comment,
communicative conflict,
pandemic COVID-19,
conflict deployment tactics
Supporting agencies: This research was supported by the RF President’s Grants Council [Grant № МК-1675.2022.2 (A comprehensive pragmatic-linguistic study of the mechanisms for provoking and preventing the emergence and development of conflict situations in virtual environment in pandemic conditions)].
About the Authors
O. Yu. Gukosyants
Pyatigorsk State University
Russian Federation
Russian Federation
Olga Yu. Gukosyants – Cand. Sci. (Philology); Assoc. Prof.; Assoc. Prof.; Department of West-European Languages and Cultures; Institute of Translatology, Russian Studies, and Multilingualism; Researcher of the Scientific-Educational Center of Applied Linguistics, Terminology Studies and Linguacognitive Technologies
prosp. Kalinina 9, Pyatigorsk 357532, Stavropol Territory
O. A. Alimuradov
Pyatigorsk State University
Russian Federation
Russian Federation
Oleg A. Alimuradov – Dr. Sci. (Philology); Assoc. Professor; Prof.; Department of West-European Languages and Cultures; Institute of Translatology, Russian Studies, and Multilingualism; Chief Researcher of the Scientific-Educational Center of Applied Linguistics, Terminology Studies and Linguacognitive Technologies;
Director of the Scientific Research and Development Department
prosp. Kalinina 9, Pyatigorsk 357532, Stavropol Territory
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