The textbook examines the phenomenon of verbal aggression in the media of the late 20th – early 21st centuries, analyzes various methods and means of verbal aggression in the media: the use of invective, slang, colloquial vocabulary, aggressive comparisons and metaphors, word-forming neologisms, unmotivated use borrowed words, techniques of linguistic demagoguery, irony, tendentious use of negative information, intertextuality. The manual is equipped with rich illustrative material, presented with texts from central and regional (Nizhny Novgorod) media. For students studying in the specialty “Journalism” and “Philology”, university teachers, teachers of Russian language and literature of secondary educational institutions.