Open AccessTHE CATEGORY OF INVECTIVENESS: FROM ORIGINS TO THE MODERN CHALLENGES
Author(s) -
Olena Skliar
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
fìlologìčnì studìï
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2412-2491
pISSN - 2311-2425
DOI - 10.28925/2311-2425.2021.156
Subject(s) - invective , vocabulary , taboo , psychology , social media , social psychology , linguistics , politics , computer science , sociology , law , world wide web , philosophy , political science , anthropology
The relevance of the study is due to the interest of modern linguistics to the speech of ordinary person. The article represents a short review of foreign and Ukrainian scholars’ investigations dedicated to the invectiveness. The sources of the invectiveness and reasons for using invectives are found out. The invectiveness is the property of words to acquire additional semantic and pragmatic connotations, which are intended to offend the interlocutor. Invectives and swearing in general are verbal violations of the prohibition that exist in some social group. The main functions of invective vocabulary are verbalization of aggression in a conflict situation; reduction of emotional stress; filling pauses during speech; setting social distance social distance.Attention is paid to the features of functioning of invectives in a modern media environment, in particular child and teenage one. The influence of vocabulary with invective semantics on the consciousness of the recipient is substantiated. A survey within the research topic was conducted to identify users' attitudes to media content that contains invective vocabulary. Attached to the survey video is a fragment from the cartoon “Bender's Game”. The results of the survey indicate ambiguous perception of content with invectives, lack of a single strategy for the selection and control of children's content among parents. According to the answers received, 3 types of attitudes to invective vocabulary can be distinguished: negative (taboo and avoiding invective vocabulary in real life and information space); neutral (the use of invectives in life and virtual space is determined by situation and has a goal); positive (extensive use of invectives, their perception as a means of expressing speech, part of everyday vocabulary).Further research of invectives and specifics of their verbalization will establish the influence of content on the language personality and define the connection between a person's communicative behavior and his information space.