Communicative Cyberpersonality Types of Aggressive Behaviour as a Cross-Cultural Phenomenon

Abstract

The paper deals with communicative cyberpersonality types of aggressive behaviour as a cross-cultural phenomenon. The aim of the article is to distinguish and differentiate communicative cyberpersonality types of aggressive behaviour ssupported by such characteristics of the communicative cyberspace as globalism, virtuality, and anonymity. The relevance of the current investigation is determined by a constantly growing role of computer-madiated communication in a modern person’s life, by the appearance of new types of the Internet users’ interaction, by the display a communicative personality’s new qualities and by the necessity of giving a scientific background to all these appearing and changing phenomena. The analysed material comprises dictionary definitions and modern Russian an English texts selected by the continuous sampling method from different Internet genres, such as forums, blogs, social nets, web-chats, which reflect destructive speech products. The overall number of investigated material is 600 units. The material is analysed using such methods as introspection, conceptual modelling, interpretative analysis and contextual analysis. The analysed material shows that not any naming means of aggressive behaviour in a cyberspace can become a name for a communicative personality type. Communicative personality type should be distinguished on the clear lexicographical representation underlying the concept, its own communicative intensions, definitely chosen communicative strategies and tactics, certain modality and verbal and non-verbal means. Taking into consideration these characteristics one can distinguish the following communicative cyberpersonality types of aggressive behaviour: troll, holy war maker, hater, cyberbuller/cyberbully (cybermobber), shamer (blamer), griefer, cyberstalker.