Abstract
In both English and the Romance languages, the root of violence, violence, violenza goes back to the Latin violentia, and is related to violatio, corruption, infringement, violation. The corresponding term in German, Gewelt, means domination and power. The Russian word for violence is nasilije and is consonant with and related to the word for force, sila. Violence, therefore, usually means coercion, enforcement, compulsion; or restrictive, abusive, arbitrarily illicit action. The Russian word for violence is also related to and sounds much like the Russian word for rape, iznasilovaije. One should distinguish between semantic and lexical violence. The former appears in the content of speech, in the way one uses the meaning of words; the latter, in treating language, vocabulary or some of its parts. In other words, linguistic violence is contextual, on the one hand, and is consolidated in certain figures of speech, on the other hand.
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