Language of Violence in Social Media: A Linguistic Cognitive Study
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.17507/jltr.1302.14Keywords:
language, cognitive linguistic, violence, social mediaAbstract
Language is not a fixed structure, but a changeable group whose contents the violence. First, we do not choose our native language. Second, we do not choose the concepts prevailing in our culture. However, we have neither the capacity nor the choice to escape the power of language. This research presumes the existence of the phenomenon of language violence in dialogue with the other, in dialogue with oneself, as well as hidden violence in language. It also presumes that this phenomenon has cognitive dimensions through which violence structures are built into general concepts, which are feared to be physically realized in reality. What arises within the language may be processed within the language before it appears in reality. This study examines the cognitive dimensions of language violence and its recent manifestations of social networking by analyzing selected models of social media by taking advantage of cognitive linguistic data to figure out the cognitive images of language violence used by social media dialogists/interlocutors. In other words, it is an attempt to reveal how words and compositions are used as a weapon by which the speaker attacks the dialogist. This study does not abide by strict time limits but adheres to the study of the phenomenon in models of expressions currently used on social media. On the other hand, it discusses the roots of violence in models of expressions in the Arab heritage in the past. All these contexts are in peace, not war.
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