Law, Linguistics and the Far Right

International Perspectives on Verbal Attacks on Vulnerable Groups

Inbunden, Engelska, 2026

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Beskrivning

This book examines how verbal and symbolic aggression and hostility directed at women and LGBT+ people operate across linguistic, multimodal, legal, and institutional domains, and how these practices contribute to discursive, democratic, and constitutional erosion. Bringing together interdisciplinary perspectives from linguistics, discourse and media studies, gender and queer theory, constitutional law, and human-rights scholarship, the volume addresses forms of aggression and hostility ranging from insults, ridicule, and digitally mediated shaming to metaphors of contamination, symbolic erasure, administrative practices, and doctrinal silence.Through comparative analyses of cases from Brazil, Germany, Italy, Poland, China, and the European human rights system, the chapters show how these practices shape political communication, institutional behavior, and legal meaning-making, thereby affecting visibility, dignity, participation, and the practical enjoyment of rights. The volume highlights recurring mechanisms, such as purity and protection narratives, victim-perpetrator inversion, and multimodal amplification, that travel across platforms, political systems, and institutional settings.The book demonstrates how verbal and symbolic aggression functions not only as an isolated speech act but as a cross-contextual mechanism with cumulative democratic and constitutional effects. The volume will be of interest to scholars and advanced students in law, linguistics, media and communication studies, gender studies, political science, and human rights.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2026-10-27
Mått:156 x 234 x undefined mm
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:292
Förlag:Taylor & Francis Ltd
ISBN:9781041206767

Utforska kategorier

Språkvetenskap och lingvistik inom Språk och ordböcker
Politiskt förtryck inom Samhälle och politik
Folkrätt inom Juridik

Mer om författaren

Ana Larissa Oliveira is a Professor at the Federal University of Minas Gerais, Brazil and Institute of Communication, University of Münster, Germany.Tímea Drinóczi is a Professor at Mykolas Romeris University, Lithuania.

Innehållsförteckning

Introduction to Law, Linguistics and the Far Right: International Perspectives on Verbal Attacks on Vulnerable Groups, Tímea Drinóczi and Ana Larissa Oliveira; Part I – Conceptual and Empirical Foundations: Brazil; 1. Models of Linguistic Impoliteness: A Theoretical Framework for Digitally Mediated Far-Right Discourse, Ana Larissa Oliveira and Tímea Drinóczi; 2. Methodological Approaches and Data – A Brazilian Case Study, Monique Miranda, Ana Larissa Oliveira, Tímea Drinóczi, and Isabel Peixoto; 3. Online Verbal Attacks on Women in Power: A Brazilian Case Study, Ana Larissa Oliveira, Tímea Drinóczi, and Monique Miranda; 4. The Era of the Short Political Video Clips: Antiprogressive Rhetoric in the Brazilian New-Right Social Media Ecology, Paulo Gonçalves-Segundo; Part II – From Digital Hostility to Institutional Power: Global, Legal and Political Perspectives; 5. Female Politicians as Targets of Cyber Violence: Exploring International Discourse on Response Strategies, Lídia Balogh; 6. How Chinese Players Respond to Queerness in Video Games: Right-Wing Discursive Attacks in Chinese Online Gaming Communities, Yue Yin and Johnny Unger; 7. How the far-right silencing and subsequent lynching mainstreamed the feminist and queer perspectives of Polish constitutionalism and what to do with it, Marcin Górski; 8. Italian Right-Wing Parties and the Anti-Gender Discourse: Between Free Speech and Political Strategies, Valentina Rita Scotti and Emilia Morra; Part III – Multimodal aggression and hostility in law, politics, and public culture; 9. Maintaining Social Order Through Exclusion: Multimodal Impoliteness and LGBTQ+ Marginalisation in Radical Right Social Media, Xandra Knappe and Birte Bös; 10. From Self-Determination to Sichtkontrolle: Leakiness, Law, and the Governance of Trans Bodies in Germany, Rieke Schröder; 11. How to Deal with Misogynistic Speech? Lessons from the ECtHR's Case Law on Homophobic Hate Discourse, Irene Spigno.