Linguoecology as a factor of information and communication security on the Internet

E.S. Palekha

Institute of Pedagogy, Psychology, and Social Problems, Kazan, 420039 Russia

E-mail: katerina.paleha@gmail.com

Received January 15, 2019

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DOI: 10.26907/2541-7738.2019.5-6.117-126

For citation: Palekha E.S. Linguoecology as a factor of information and communication security on the Internet. Uchenye Zapiski Kazanskogo Universiteta. Seriya Gumanitarnye Nauki, 2019, vol. 161, no. 5–6, pp. 117–126. doi: 10.26907/2541-7738.2019.5-6.117-126. (In Russian)

Abstract

The problem of speech deviation and language abuse prevention in the mass-media communication was discussed. The purpose of the research was to identify the potential of linguoecology in struggling with linguistic violence and extremism on the Internet. A discourse des­cription of the text content on the Internet was carried out. Typical language behavior patterns with signs of verbal aggression and deviation on the Internet were analyzed. Examples from the linguistic and criminological practice were provided. The problems faced during the analysis of texts on the Internet were described. A program has been proposed to reduce speech aggression by collaboration of researchers and experts. To solve the problems under study, the methods of complex linguistic and communicative analysis, content and intent analysis, conceptual analysis, discourse analysis, etc. were used. As a result of the study, it was concluded that texts modeling the concepts of anti-values (aggression, violence, death, hopelessness, permissiveness) and used as a means of explicit and hidden speech influence on the addressee should be attributed to dangerous network texts. There is the need to introduce the concept of “linguistic security” of a personality on the Internet. A number of unsolved problems in the field of scientific expertology, as well as socio- and psycholinguistics, were raised. Measures to prevent the practice of linguistic violence were proposed. An important result of the study is the suggestion to expand the practice of applying the concept of “linguoecology” and to use the data of this area of linguistics for developing the concept of “linguistic security”. The results of the study are important for strengthening the linguistic security of a person on the Internet, increasing the comfort and environmental friendliness of the web content, and preventing linguistic toxicity of the Internet environment.

Keywords: linguistic expertise, linguoecology, linguistic personality, speech deviation, linguistic violence, network text, linguistic security, discommunication

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