Specificity of expressing verbal aggression in the Chinese language (based on a Chinese TV show 爱情保卫战)

Abstract

The article considers the features of maniкитайскfestation and expression of speech aggression in the Chinese language. The purpose of this study is to identify the features of manifestation of aggresкитайскsion in the modern Chinese language based on epiкитайскsodes of the Chinese television program for furкитайскther study of the patterns of this phenomenon, as well as to identify the features of its lexical feaкитайскtures at the current stage of development of the Chinese language. The study is based on such sciкитайскentific methods as contextual analysis, linguistic statistical method, intent analysis and qualitative method. The materials for the study were the 2023 -2024 releases of the Chinese television project “爱情保卫战” (“Battle for Love”). At the beginning of the article, the authors consider the problems of defining the concept of “speech aggression” in modern linguistics. Further, an attempt is made to analyze the releases of the Chinese television proкитайскgram for the use of linguistic means of conveying aggression in the Chinese language and identify their features. In the course of the study, the auкитайскthors identify five types of impoliteness strategies with the help of which the participants of the teleкитайскvision program express verbal aggression. The auкитайскthors come to the conclusion that the means of exкитайскpressing verbal aggression in the Chinese language are a variety of such techniques as the use of offenкитайскsive expressions, sarcasm, orders or prohibitions, irony, rhetorical questions, insincere politeness, which are aimed at humiliating, insulting or hurtкитайскing the dignity of the opponent.