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This book is open access under a CC BY 4.0 license and reports on research carried out as part of the European Union co-funded C.O.N.T.A.C.T. project which targeted hate speech and hate crime across a number of EU member states. It showcases the bearing that discourse analytic research can have on our understanding of this phenomenon that is a growing global cause for concern. Although ‘hate speech’ is often incorporated in legal and policy documents, there is no universally accepted definition, which in itself warrants research into how hatred is both expressed and perceived. The research project synthesises discourse analytic and corpus linguistics techniques, and presents its key findings here. The focus is especially on online comments posted in reaction to news items that could trigger discrimination, as well as on the folk perception of online hate speech as revealed through semi-structured interviews with young individuals across the various partner countries.

Linguistics. --- Social media. --- Discourse analysis. --- Corpora (Linguistics). --- Social justice. --- Human rights. --- Discourse Analysis. --- Corpus Linguistics. --- Social Media. --- Social Justice, Equality and Human Rights. --- Basic rights --- Civil rights (International law) --- Human rights --- Rights, Human --- Rights of man --- Human security --- Transitional justice --- Truth commissions --- Equality --- Justice --- Corpus-based analysis (Linguistics) --- Corpus linguistics --- Linguistic analysis (Linguistics) --- Discourse grammar --- Text grammar --- Semantics --- Semiotics --- User-generated media --- Communication --- User-generated content --- Linguistic science --- Science of language --- Language and languages --- Law and legislation --- corpus linguistics methods --- discourse analytic research --- hate speech research --- C.O.N.T.A.C.T. project European Union --- hate speech in reaction to news --- discourse analysis of social media --- racism in online comments forum --- Corpora (Linguistics)