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This volume investigates and analyses hate speech from a linguistic perspective. The focus is not only on lexical means (e.g. insults, derogatory terms or epithets), but also on more subtle grammatical and pragmatic strategies related to implicit meanings or conversational dynamics. The book’s aim is to identify the common linguistic characteristics of hate speech in different domains of communication and to explore criteria that can help distinguish between hate speech and freedom of expression. The studies collected in this volume all focus on Italian, but the methods and findings of the individual chapters can easily be extended to other languages for comparative and contrastive purposes.
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