Understanding and appraising ‘hate speech’

Dados Bibliográficos

ID21235331
AutoresSara Vilar-Lluch (0000-0002-5495-9386, University of Nottingham, autor correspondente)
Ano2023
Volume11
Fascículo2
Páginas279-306
Data de publicação2023-09-26
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoJournal of Language Aggression and Conflict (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 2213-1272 • E-ISSN: 2213-1280
EditoraJohn Benjamins Publishing Company (PUBLISHER • NL)
DOI10.1075/jlac.00082.vil
OpenAlexW4377820521
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas5
Referências citadas28

Hate speech has become a matter of international concern, permeating institutional and lay discussions alike. Yet, exactly what it means to refer to a linguistic act as ‘hate speech’ remains unclear. This paper examines the lay understanding of hate speech, focusing on (1) the relationship between hate speech and hate, and (2) the relationship between hate speech and offensive speech. As part of the second question, the paper considers how hate speech is defined as a legal matter in the UK Public Order Act 1986. The study adopts a corpus-based discourse analysis approach and examines 255 hate speech-related news articles and the general English Web 2020 corpus. Hate speech is a complex multifaceted phenomenon; while ‘hate’ is one of its core characteristics, it is not sufficient to assess a certain behaviour as hate speech. Threats, denigration of the targets based on a protected characteristic (age, race, religion, sex, sexual orientation, disability), the potential to cause harm and the intent to stir up hatred are also essential in distinguishing hate speech and offense

Epistemology · Harm · Hatred · Incitement · Linguistics · Offensive · Phenomenon · Political science · Politics · Sexual orientation · Freedom of Expression and Defamation · Hate Speech and Cyberbullying Detection · Law · Philosophy · Psychology · Social Psychology · Swearing, Euphemism, Multilingualism