Verbal Aggression in European Languages and Cultures

This publication is a handbook for bilingual secondary schools dedicated to the prevention of verbal aggression among adolescents. The handbook is the result of a project entitled "Verbal aggression in a cross-cultural perspective - sources, forms, ways to counteract it", within the framework of Action III.3.2. "Promotion of scientific research" of the program Excellence Initiative - Research University of Warsaw. This is a program dedicated to the so-called Third Mission of UW, i.e. the impact of scientific research on society. Verbal aggression is a growing problem in our societies, both in the private sphere and in social life - in the family, at school, in the workplace, on the Internet, in the political arena. The first part of the handbook presents theories on the phenomenon of verbal aggression. It is followed by a discussion of various manifestations of aggressive behavior: threats and insults, aggression against people with disabilities, ethnic racism and sexism, hate speech, stalking, (cyber)mobbing, Internet aggression, as well as pro-social forms of aggression, such as aggression in music and "banter aggression”. Each section is accompanied by interactive exercises for classroom and group work. The technical terms used are explained in an appendix in the form of a small glossary.