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1st Edition

Law, Lingusitics and the Far Right International Perspectives on Verbal Attacks on Vulnerable Groups

Edited By Tímea Drinóczi, Ana Larissa Oliveira Copyright 2027

292 Pages 29 B/W Illustrations

by Routledge

Description

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,... Read more

Table of Contents

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

Editor(s)

Biography

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.

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