Młodzi gniewni w internecie – o agresywnych zachowaniach językowych młodzieży

Abstract

On an online forum discussion, when using very strong and unrefined (violating the rules of taboo language) linguistic and stylistic means, which aim at depreciating the opponent, young discussants (in a polemical debate) abandon rational argumentation in favour of emotional one, they start to speak an aggressive language, often with a vulgar and obscene shade. This leads to the coarsening of utterances—comments, and the negatively valuating lexical items, which they include, aim not only at expressing and inducing emotions, but mostly demonstration of “being cool”. Such attitude will manifest changes in the rules of everyday decorum. Aggressive behaviour of young internauts-avatars [participants of an Internet forum] becomes part of their linguistic and cultural world view, a specific way of imaging new realities of communication being subject to transformations, in which the boundaries of good taste and language tact move (in the wrong direction).