Verbal extremism: the problem of the boundaries of the term
The article discusses the existence of the term “verbal extremism” in juridical linguistic space, identifies the semantics of the lexemes depending on the scope of its existence, given both the normative and the author’s occasional representation in speech. Priority to this phrase is assigned in relation to others (“hate speech” “hate speech,” etc.) on the basis of its functioning, simultaneously, in legal and scientific fields. Given the establishment of generic-specific relations between the terms “extremism” and “verbal extremism” a number of constitutive characteristics of the phenomena is analysed, allowing to formulate a defi- nition. Specific instances of the investigated concepts are characterised based on the analysis of surveys of students of Sverdlovsk Region. The result of this research is to attempt to give terminology to the concept of “verbal extremism” on the legal sources and research.