TY - BOOK ID - 142264833 TI - Hate Speech in Social Media : Linguistic Approaches. PY - 2023 SN - 303138248X PB - Cham : Springer International Publishing AG, DB - UniCat KW - Hate speech. KW - Linguistics. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:142264833 AB - This edited volume explores linguistic approaches to understanding hate speech in social media. The book delves into various structural patterns, rhetorical strategies, and interactional dimensions of online hate speech. It discusses methodologies for building and analyzing hate speech corpora, such as the NETLANG corpus, and examines the integration of linguistic input to improve natural language processing techniques for detecting hate speech. Contributors analyze topics like the use of humorous figurative language, rhetorical questions, and the apartheid analogy in antisemitic discourse. The book also addresses the gender dimension of hate speech and strategies for counteracting homophobic discourse. Intended for linguists, social scientists, and digital humanities researchers, this work aims to provide insights into the complexities of hate speech and its impact on social media platforms. ER -