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Experimental Psychology (Russia)
2022. Vol. 15, no. 4, 139–156
doi:10.17759/exppsy.2022150409
ISSN: 2072-7593 / 2311-7036 (online)

Speech Intentions and Referential Objects in Discourse of Social Media (Based on the Discussions in the Context of Lockdown)

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N.D. Pavlova, V.A. Afinogenova, T.A. Kubrak, I.A. Zachesova

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Abstract

The article continues the series of studies directed at concretizing the ideas about the functioning of Internet discourse, and contains the results of the research on the discourse of social media, which reflects, forms and transforms the positions of Internet users, their assessment of current events. The aim of the research is to analyze the topical content and to reveal the peculiarities of its intentional organization. The material of the study is 6 informational messages about the lockdown announced due to a sharp increase in the number of COVID-19 cases, and their discussion on various Internet sites (168 participants; 326 comments, =54, min=46, max=63). Social media discourse is highly dialogic. Its general communicative structure and thematic specificity related to the topic of discussion are revealed. Using the intent-analysis method, a change in the intentional content of the discourse relative to the initiating post and a significant increase in the number of referential objects is shown. A tendency was found to strengthen the role of negative intentions of social media discourse, which correlates with the need for joint understanding of the problem situation and, at the same time, with verbal aggression directed at the interlocutor.

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Keywords: discourse of social media, Internet-discourse, intent-analysis, COVID-19 pandemic, lockdown, speech intentions of interlocutors, referential objects of discourse, intensity of negative intentions

Journal rubric: Social Psychology

Article type: scientific article

DOI: https://doi.org/10.17759/exppsy.2022150409

Funding. The reported study was funded by Russian Scientific Foundation (RSF), project number No. 22-28-01511.

Received: 05.05.2022

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For citation: Pavlova N.D., Afinogenova V.A., Kubrak T.A., Zachesova I.A. Speech Intentions and Referential Objects in Discourse of Social Media (Based on the Discussions in the Context of Lockdown). Eksperimental'naâ psihologiâ = Experimental Psychology (Russia), 2022. Vol. 15, no. 4, pp. 139–156. DOI: 10.17759/exppsy.2022150409. (In Russ., аbstr. in Engl.)

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Information About the Authors

Natalia D. Pavlova, Doctor of Psychology, Head of Laboratory of Psychology of Speech and Psycholinguistics, Federal State Budgetary Organization of Sciences Institute of Psychology of Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia, ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1516-0977, e-mail: pavlova_natalya@mail.ru

Viktoria A. Afinogenova, PhD in Psychology, Research Associate, Institute of Psychology, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia, ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9216-0145, e-mail: viktoriyamail87@mail.ru

Tina A. Kubrak, PhD in Psychology, Research Associate, Institute of Psychology, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia, ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0701-1736, e-mail: kubrak.tina@gmail.com

Irina A. Zachesova, PhD in Psychology, Senior Researcher, Institute of Psychology, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia, ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2369-0262, e-mail: zachiosova_2004@mail.ru

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