Hate Speech in Social Media: Linguistic Approaches

ISBN-13: 9783031382475 / Angielski

Isabel Ermida

Spis treści

INTRODUCTION: ONLINE HATE SPEECH – OBJECT, APPROACHES, ISSUES

Chapter 1. Building and Analysing a Hate Speech Corpus: The NETLANG Experience and Beyond – Isabel Ermida

Chapter 2. Distinguishing Hate Speech from Aggressive Speech: A Five-Factor Annotation Model – Isabel Ermida 

PART I. STRUCTURAL PATTERNS IN HATE SPEECH

Chapter 3. Improving NLP Techniques by Integrating Linguistic Input to Detect Hate Speech in CMC Corpora – Idalete Dias and Filipa Pereira 

Chapter 4. First-person Aggression Verbs in YouTube Comments – Ylva Biri, Laura Hekanaho, and Minna Palander-Collin

Chapter 5. Emotional Deixis in Online Hate Speech – Joana Aguiar and Pilar Barbosa

Chapter 6. Derogatory Linguistic Mechanisms in Online Hate Speech – Eckhard Bick

PART II. LEXICAL AND RHETORICAL STRATEGIES IN THE EXPRESSION OF HATE SPEECH

Chapter 7. Humorous Use of Figurative Language in Religious Hate Speech – Liisi Laineste and Wladyslaw Chłopicki

Chapter 8. Rhetorical Questions as Conveyors of Hate Speech – Vahid Parvaresh and Gemma Harvey

Chapter 9. Enabling Concepts in Hate Speech: The Function of the Apartheid Analogy in Antisemitic Online Discourse about Israel – Matthew Bolton, Matthias J. Becker, Laura Ascone, and Karolina Placzynta

Chapter 10. Hate Speech in Poland in the Context of the War in Ukraine – Lucyna Harmon 

PART III. THE INTERACTIONAL DIMENSION OF HATE SPEECH: NEGOTIATING, STANCE-TAKING, COUNTERING

Chapter 11. Stance-taking and Gender: Hateful Representations of Portuguese Women Public Figures in the NETLANG Corpus – Rita Faria 

Chapter 12. Negotiating Hate and Conflict in Online Comments: Evidence from the NETLANG Corpus – Jan Chovanec 

Chapter 13. Linguistic Markers of Affect and the Gender Dimension in Online Hate Speech – Kristina Pahor de Maiti, Jasmin Franza, and Darja Fišer 

Chapter 14. Counteracting Homophobic Discourse in Internet Comments: Fuelling or Mediating Conflict? – Jūratė Ruzaitė 

O autorze

Isabel Ermida is Professor of Linguistics at the Department of English Studies, University of Minho, Portugal. She has dedicated her research to the pragmatic analysis of forms of indirectness and implicitness in language, with a key interest in humour, on which she has published extensively (The Language of Comic Narratives, 2008; Language and Humour in the Media, co-edited, 2012). Her latest work explores the language of hate speech, focusing on the expression of power and the ideological construction of identity and belonging. Drawing on impoliteness studies and speech act scholarship, she has analysed the prejudiced and discriminatory representation of social variables such as gender, nationality, ethnicity, age, and social class in public discourse. Her latest international financed project (NETLANG) delves into the language of hate speech on social media.

Blurb

This edited book offers insight into the linguistic construction of prejudice and discrimination in social media. Drawing on the outputs of a three-year research project, NETLANG, involving scholars from five European countries (Portugal, Czech Republic, Estonia, Finland and Poland), as well as on external contributions from participants in the project’s final conference, the collection brings together a variety of linguistic approaches to the study of online hate speech, ranging from Pragmatics to Syntax, Lexis, Stylistics, Natural Language Processing (NLP) and Corpus Linguistics. Data from English, Portuguese, Danish, Lithuanian, Persian, Polish, and Slovenian are examined, along with various geopolitical contexts for hate speech, especially anti-refugee and anti-immigrant discourse. The authors explore a continuum of overt to covert textual data, namely: (i) structural elements, such as syntactic and morphological patterns found to recur throughout the texts; (ii) lexical and stylistic elements, revealing the often implicit ways vocabulary choices and rhetorical devices signal the expression of hate; and (iii) interactional elements, concerning the pragmatic relationships established in online communicative exchanges. The chapters cover numerous types of prejudice, such as sexism, nationalism, racism, antisemitism, religious intolerance, ageism, and homo/transphobia. The book will be of interest to an academic readership in Linguistics, Media Studies, Communication Studies, and Social Sciences.

Isabel Ermida is Professor of Linguistics at the Department of English Studies, University of Minho, Portugal. She has dedicated her research to the pragmatic analysis of forms of indirectness and implicitness in language, with a key interest in humour, on which she has published extensively (The Language of Comic Narratives, 2008; Language and Humour in the Media, co-edited, 2012). Her latest work explores the language of hate speech, focusing on the expression of power and the ideological construction of identity and belonging. Drawing on impoliteness studies and speech act scholarship, she has analysed the prejudiced and discriminatory representation of social variables such as gender, nationality, ethnicity, age, and social class in public discourse. Her latest international financed project (NETLANG) delves into the language of hate speech on social media.