Stylistic Verbal Markers of Threat in Public Statements of Social Network Twitter

Irina Anatolievna Deeney; Lyudmila Valerievna Belova

Irina Anatolievna Deeney Belgorod State National Research University
Lyudmila Valerievna Belova Belgorod State National Research University

Keywords: verbal marker, discourse analysis, public statement, public discourse, social network, internet communication

Abstract

The article examines a number of social, communicative and linguistic factors related to the threat as a speech strategy, reveals the ways of functioning of these markers within the Internet discourse. The aim of the study is to reveal the features of lexical and grammatical verbal markers of threat in the texts of public messages of the English–speaking segment of the social network Twitter. The scientific novelty of the study lies in the study of language tools that function as verbal threat markers in the English-language social network Twitter. As a result of the study, it was determined that the English-language media text has a high degree of implicitness, evaluativity and expressiveness. Verbal markers are endowed with a number of communicative functions and are the most important element in the text system of Internet messages.

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Author Biographies

Irina Anatolievna Deeney, Belgorod State National Research University

Doctor of Philology, Professor at the Belgorod State National Research University

Lyudmila Valerievna Belova, Belgorod State National Research University

Student of the Doctoral Programme “Linguistics and literary studies”

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