Hate Speech in Network Space of the North Caucasus Multiethnic Regions: Functional and Pragmatic Analysis of Conflictogens

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The article provides a functional and pragmatic analysis of conflictogens as a key component of the hate speech. The empirical basis of the study is the online postings from the VKontakte social network and the Telegram messenger in the network space of the multiethnic regions of the North Caucasus. The key elements of conflictogenesis are pejoratives, critical remarks, accusations, insults, curses, censures and sarcasm, the soft and medium of hate speech dominates. Stereotypical zoonymic ethnopholisms are frequent in the comments.

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Sergey Nikolaevich Bredikhin

North Caucasus Federal University

Author for correspondence.
Email: bredichinsergey@yandex.ru

Doctor of Philology (Dr. habil.), Professor, Professor of the Department of Theory and Practice of Translation

Russian Federation

Evgeniy Aleksandrovich Avdeev

North Caucasus Federal University

Email: ewg.avdeev@yandex.ru

PhD, Associate Professor of the Department of Philosophy and Ethnology

Russian Federation

Boris Andreevich Shishkin

North Caucasus Federal University

Email: boris-shishkin.work@yandex.ru

Postgraduate student of the Department of Theory and Practice of Translation

Russian Federation

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