Speech provocations in everyday internet interaction: variants of realization and dialogue development

Afinogenova Viktoriya Alekseevna

This research continues series of studies associated with illocutionary mechanism of dialogue development and turned to study speech provocations as a destabilizing form of interlocutors’ communication initiative in process of Internet interaction. We analyzed discussions of information messages about COVID-19 vacсination on various Internet sites. The study showed that interlocutors’ replicas realizing speech provocations dominated in Internet discussions. 17 categories of provocative intentions were revealed. Intentions aimed at referential object «Interlocutor» had the response more often among them. Several variants of dialogue development at appearance of speech provocations were described, its structure was characterized.

Keywords:everyday Internet interaction, illocutionary mechanism of dialogue development, interlocutors’ communication initiative, speech provocations, provocative intentions, intent-analysis.