The role and place of language in social conflict

Abstract

Conflict discourse is a poorly understood area. The basic function of the language is interactivity, regulation and coordination. Therefore, any speech activity is rhetorical in nature. Linguistic rhetoric is at the junction of theoretical linguistics and practical rhetoric. This young science is engaged in the study of texts that are clearly focused on direct, effective and operational impact. Unfortunately, until now, these disciplines existed quite separately, which was manifested, for example, in different approaches to the analysis of speech means, as well as in the branching system of typology of texts. The authors consider the social conflict through the prism of the linguistic paradigm. Our research is conducted in the light of the solution of a common linguistic problem – the distinction between the contexts of conflict discourse and the cases of their pragmatic use. The pragmatic characteristic of language units embodies their functional specificity, which determines the content of conflict discourse, intentions and receptive abilities of opponents of conflict discourse in conflict discourse. Verbal behavior in conflict discourse is characterized by variety of forms, linguistic manifestation of role performances, the specifics of the rules and regulations interactive activities of interlocutors, which relies on mismatched