Affiliation:
1. University of Helsinki
Abstract
Abstract
Examples of posts from three Finnish (236 posts) and one French (410 posts) discussion threads are analyzed with
regard to lexicon, grammar, speech acts, and topoi. The aim is to illustrate the different means used to express hatred or speech
pertaining to ideological and thematic spaces in which the expression of hatred may be legitimized. The examples represent
everyday discourse, which is an influential arena for the materialization of ideologies. Given the lack of linguistic and
discursive tools used exclusively to express or legitimize hatred, doing research on hate speech always entails taking a specific
ideological stance: neither linguistics nor pragmatics or discourse studies can provide a definition of hate speech that is valid
in all contexts. Triangulating different methodological and theoretical perspectives is necessary to produce convincing research
results.
Publisher
John Benjamins Publishing Company
Subject
Computer Networks and Communications,Linguistics and Language,Language and Linguistics