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Negotiating hate and conflict in online comments: Between affirmation and dissent

CHOVANEC, Jan

Základní údaje

Originální název

Negotiating hate and conflict in online comments: Between affirmation and dissent

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Vydání

15th ESSE Conference, online, 30 August-3 September, 2021, Lyon, France, 2021

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Jazyk

angličtina

Typ výsledku

Prezentace na konferencích

Obor

60203 Linguistics

Stát vydavatele

Francie

Utajení

není předmětem státního či obchodního tajemství

Odkazy

Organizační jednotka

Filozofická fakulta

Klíčová slova česky

konflikt; analýza diskurzu; stylistika; mediální diskurz

Klíčová slova anglicky

conflict; discourse analysis; stylistics; media discourse

Příznaky

Mezinárodní význam, Recenzováno
Změněno: 10. 2. 2023 15:09, prof. Mgr. Jan Chovanec, Ph.D.

Anotace

V originále

The presentation addresses the interactional construction of hate speech in internet discussion forums, with the aim of uncovering some of the strategies whereby users negotiate verbally offensive behaviour. While there has been substantial research into the forms of hate speech and offensive behaviour in the context of political and media discourse, where the negative language targets various groups of ‘others’ (e.g. ethnic minorities, immigrants and other ‘outgroups’), much less attention has been paid to the interactional dynamics of the debate between the users themselves, particularly where some conflict of opinions arises. Based on data from English and Czech online news forums, the talk maps the users’ interactions between different levels of comments, i.e. the first-order comments (which react to news articles and tend to contain some elements of hate speech and negatively opinionated commentary) and second-order comments (which react to the previous comments as follow-ups). The data indicate that while first-order commenters, due to setting the tone of the discussion, could be seen as opinion leaders within the micro-community of the online users, the second-order commenters need to negotiate the interpersonal space along a cline ranging from affirmation to difference. The presentation suggests that contrary to the general perception of online commenting as a ‘social bubble’, there is a surprising amount of conflict and dissent taking many different forms.

Návaznosti

MUNI/A/1376/2020, interní kód MU
Název: Paradigms, strategies and developments - English lingustics and translation
Investor: Masarykova univerzita, Paradigms, strategies and developments - English lingustics and translation