The grammar of hate : morphosyntactic features of hateful, aggressive, and dehumanizing discourse / edited by Natalia L Knoblock, Saginaw Valley State University, Michigan.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Knoblock, Natalia, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Hate speech.

Grammar, Comparative and general--Morphosyntax.

Grammar, Comparative and general.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xvi, 293 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Place of Publication:

Cambridge ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2022.

Summary:

Hate speech continues to be an issue of key social significance, yet while its lexical and discursive aspects have been widely studied, its grammatical traits have been hitherto overlooked. This book seeks to address this gap by bringing together a global team of scholars to explore the morphosyntactic features of hateful and aggressive discourse. Drawing on thirteen diverse cross-linguistic case studies, it reveals how hate is expressed in political discourse, slang, and social media, and towards a range of target groups relating to gender, sexual orientation, and ethnic identity. Based on ideas from functional and cognitive linguistics, each thematic part demonstrates how features such as morphology, word formation, pronoun use, and syntactic structures are manipulated for the purpose of expressing hostility and hate. An innovative approach to an age-old problem, this book is essential reading for researchers and students of hate speech and verbal aggression.

Notes:

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Other Format:

Print version:

ISBN:

9781108991841 (ebook)

Access Restriction:

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