The Grammar of Hate
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The Grammar of Hate

Morphosyntactic Features of Hateful, Aggressive, and Dehumanizing Discourse

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The Grammar of Hate

Morphosyntactic Features of Hateful, Aggressive, and Dehumanizing Discourse

About this book

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.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half-title page
  3. Title page
  4. Copyright page
  5. Contents
  6. List of Figures
  7. List of Tables
  8. List of Contributors
  9. Acknowledgments
  10. Introduction
  11. 1 Animacy and Countability of Slurs: Shifting Grammatical Categories
  12. 2 Language Aggression in English Slang: The Case of the -o Suffix
  13. 3 Adj+ie/y Nominalizations in Contemporary English: From Diminution to Pejoration
  14. 4 Grammatical Gender and Offensiveness in Modern Greek Slang Vocabulary
  15. 5 Unseen Gender: Misgendering of Transgender Individuals in Czech
  16. 6 The Neutering Neuter: The Discursive Use of German Grammatical Gender in Dehumanization
  17. 7 Neutering Unpopular Politicians: The Neuter Gender and ā€˜Itā€™ as a Dehumanizing Grammatical Metaphor
  18. 8 The Power of a Pronoun
  19. 9 Is Play on Words Fair Play or Dirty Play? On Ill-Meaning Use of Morphological Blending
  20. 10 Expressive German Adjective and Noun Compounds in Aggressive Discourse: Morphopragmatic and Sociolinguistic Evidence from Austrian Corpora
  21. 11 ā€˜Kill the Invadersā€™: Imperative Verbs and their Grammatical Patients in Tarrantā€™s The Great Replacement
  22. 12 ā€˜I am no racist but ā€¦ā€™: A Corpus-Based Analysis of Xenophobic Hate Speech Constructions in Danish and German Social Media Discourse
  23. 13 Homophobic Spaceā€“Times: Lexicogrammatical and Discourseā€“Semantic Aspects of the Softscapes of Hate
  24. Index