Dialogicality of the Extremism Discourse

Abstract

The article addresses the possibility of isolating extremism discourse as a specific kind of discourse. As criteria for such determination are proposed: a common subject, quantitative parameter (sufficient quantities of such texts), presence of a genre variety of texts of this discourse. The study material is the texts of the dialogue and monologue speech: correspondence on the Internet of interpersonal and public nature, articles. The linguistic analysis methods (lexical-semantic, stylistic, semantic, communicative-pragmatic analysis) were used to study the material. The main feature of extremism discourse is dialogicality, which is the relation of different semantic positions, consideration of the addressee’s position, consideration of the opponents, and implementation in the author’s dialogue. Forms of representation of dialogicality in texts and genres of the extremism discourse are considered. The study revealed the following features of the extremism discourse: significant roles of a addresser and addressee, the use of the strategies of self-presentation and discrimination by the communicants, the juxtaposition of “friends” and “strangers” groups, updating of the “friends” and “strangers” concepts.