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Hate Speech - Linguistic Perspectives (Hardcover)
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Hate Speech - Linguistic Perspectives (Hardcover)
Series: Foundations in Language and Law [FLL]
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Hate speech has been extensively studied by disciplines such as
social psychology, sociology, history, politics and law. Some
significant areas of study have been the origins of hate speech in
past and modern societies around the world; the way hate speech
paves the way for harmful social movements; the socially
destructive force of propaganda; and the legal responses to hate
speech. On reviewing the literature, one major weakness stands out:
hate speech, a crime perpetrated primarily by malicious and
damaging language use, has no significant study in the field of
linguistics. Historically, pragmatic theories have tended to
address language as cooperative action, geared to reciprocally
informative polite understanding. As a result of this idealized
view of language, negative types of discourse such as harassment,
defamation, hate speech, etc. have been neglected as objects of
linguistic study. Since they go against social, moral and legal
norms, many linguists have wrongly depicted those acts of wrong
communication as unusual, anomalous or deviant when they are, in
fact, usual and common in modern societies all over the world. The
book analyses the challenges legal practitioners and linguists must
meet when dealing with hate speech, especially with the advent of
new technologies and social networks, and takes a linguistic
perspective by targeting the knowledge the linguist can provide
that makes harassment actionable.
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