INVESTIGATING SPEECH ACTS USED IN CRIMINAL CYBER SEXUAL EXTORTION

Abstract

This paper investigates the criminal speech acts that occur in the cases of cyber sexual extortion as a growing cybercrime that has recently been increased in social media platforms. In this paper, an eclectic adopt based on Shuy’s linguistic tools to analyze and the researcher adds the criteria to further analyze the criminal cases according to the data collected. This study hypothesizes that the extortionists use threatening and ordering because they are more powerful than victims. Finally, this study finds out that  the exortionists use threatening, ordering and false promises in order to achieve certain expected behaviors of grooming and manipulating the victims. While the victims use pleading, claiming, requesting and promising.