Cyberviolence in textual practices in the digital environment

Technology, as shown by Paveau (2021), has favored a creative explosion of texts co-produced with the machine, which suggests how man and machine are socially and individually related. In this article, our objective is to deal, above all, with the phenomenon of cyberviolence, which, for the author, are moral discursive events triggered by violent statements related to the notion of decency of a time, a culture and a space. Such cyberviolent language gestures are ritualized and modified all the time, in permanent negotiations. From an example collected on social networks, we intend to reflect on these relationships when analyzing the textual marks of cyberviolence. We want to demonstrate that, as in any interaction, cyberviolent gestures depend on the characteristics of the audience, gender, communicative contract, argumentative modalities and all modes of textual organization, among which we highlight the referential processes.