Flaming as a speech conflict inciting tool in Internet-discourse

Alexander Babuk

doi:10.35750/2713-0622-2022-1-85-92

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FLAMING AS A SPEECH CONFLICT INCITING TOOL IN INTERNET-DISCOURSE Flaming as a speech conflict inciting tool in Internet-discourse

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Published in Russian Journal of Deviant Behavior · Pages 85–92 · Rubric: Criminological research on deviant behavior

DOI: https://doi.org/10.35750/2713-0622-2022-1-85-92

Received: 17.01.2022 Accepted: 28.04.2022 Published: 28.04.2022

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Alexander Babuk

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Alexander Babuk

Academic degree: candidate of philological sciences

State Institution “Scientific and Practical Center of the State Forensic Examination Committee of the Republic of Belarus” veduschiy nauchnyy sotrudnik · laboratoriya psihologo-lingvisticheskih issledovaniy · Belarus

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The article analyzes flaming as a tool for a speech conflict inciting. The author backs up the idea that flaming as a mean of speech aggression appeared on the threshold of a new era due to the development of the mass media and computer-mediated communication in the Internet discourse. It is shown that flaming is actively used in combination with other forms of speech aggression in Internet discourse, such as trolling and cyberbullying. Phenomenon of «hate speech» is assigned a special role in flamewars. This term as the international legal practice shows, denotes the opposition of the subjects described in the text based on certain characteristics (race, language, religion, nationality, or belonging to any group) and inducement to violent actions that are carried out based on them. Using specific examples, the author attempts to classify flaming to reveal their strategic goals and to describe the tactics of discreditation illustrating the intent of the content creator. The work emphasizes the need to reveal the communicating tactics in the framework of forensic linguistics examination as well as deanonymization of the flaming content creators via forensic authorship examination.

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flaming, speech aggression, cyberbullying, extremism, interpretation, communicating strategies and tactics, forensic linguistics, forensic authorship examination

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Babuk A. V. Flaming as a speech conflict inciting tool in Internet-discourse // Russian Journal of Deviant Behavior. 2022. no. 1. pp. 85-92. DOI: https://doi.org/10.35750/2713-0622-2022-1-85-92. (Date of access 06.09.2026).

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Alexander Babuk. "Flaming as a speech conflict inciting tool in Internet-discourse." Russian Journal of Deviant Behavior 2.1 (2022): 85-92. DOI: https://doi.org/10.35750/2713-0622-2022-1-85-92.

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Babuk A. V. (2022). Flaming as a speech conflict inciting tool in Internet-discourse. Russian Journal of Deviant Behavior, 2(1), 85-92. https://doi.org/10.35750/2713-0622-2022-1-85-92

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Alexander Babuk. "Flaming as a speech conflict inciting tool in Internet-discourse." Russian Journal of Deviant Behavior 2, no. 1 (2022): 85-92. https://doi.org/10.35750/2713-0622-2022-1-85-92.

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