Emotive component of an aggressive text

Korosteleva Larisa Vladimirovna
Nizhnevartovsk State University, Nizhnevartovsk, Russia
E-mail: korostelevalv@yandex.ru

Abstract. The article presents the results of an experimental study of the emotional and value component of the perception of aggressive text.
The relevance of this study is determined, firstly, by the inaccurate status of speech aggression in modern linguistics, and secondly, existing approaches to the study of speech aggression are based on text analysis: the study of its pragmatic, cognitive component, the study of markers of an aggressive text. However, the process of perceiving an aggressive text is not presented in linguistic scientific works. Thus, the purpose of our study was to study the discursive characteristics of verbal aggression from the perspective of its emotional and evaluative impact on the addressee.

The material for the study was a text that we assessed as aggressive according to the linguistic criteria presented in the work of L.R. Kamalova. The perception of aggression was studied using the subjective scaling method. The experiment was carried out in two stages: at the first stage, the names of scales were determined to assess the degree of aggressiveness of the text, and at the second stage, the degree of aggressiveness of the text during its perception was investigated. The method of subjective scaling at this stage was used to determine quantitative indicators of the degree of expression of a particular feature of the text, as well as the attitude of the experiment participants to linguistic signs.

The experiment showed that the text presented to the participants of the experiment in the process of its psycho-emotional perception was assessed by them as quite aggressive: on all scales, the aggressiveness of the text was rated above average, the highest indicators included criteria such as emotional, impulsive, harsh, rude, unpleasant, loud, angry.

Keywords: language consciousness; speech activity; semantic experiment; associative experiment; speech perception; aggressive text; speech aggression