Linguistic approaches to conflict discourse study

The paper is devoted to the analysis of conflict discourse from the linguistic point of view. Communication conflict is viewed as a type of discourse destruction. The author proposes the definition of discourse destruction based on the interpretation of this phenomenon in other research paradigms. The following kinds of discourse destruction are described: face-threatening acts, communicative hole, communicative defection, communicative failure, violation, difficulties, barriers, communicative conflict. On the basis of several definitions of conflict in speech interaction the author’s understanding of communication conflict is given. The perspectives for analyzing of communicative conflict on the basis of such genres as news, interview, press-conference, commentary are outlined.