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1st Edition

Toxic Language in East Asia Linguistic Analysis of Aggression and Conflict

Edited By Lucien Brown, Xi Chen Copyright 2027

266 Pages 10 B/W Illustrations

by Routledge

Description

This book explores examples of ‘toxic language’, the linguistic manifestations of societal conflicts and aggressions, that have arisen in Asian contexts. By highlighting toxic language, a panoramic concept borrowed from computational linguistics, the book assesses hate speech, harassment, discrimination, cyberbullying, sarcasm, irony and other kinds of offensive, impolite and harmful language... Read more

Table of Contents

1. Introduction: Toxic language

Lucien Brown and Xi Chen

Part 1: Sexism, gendered language and toxic masculinity

2. Justifiable Toxicity: Perceptions, Shifting Meanings, and Usages of “Straight Man Cancer”

Jun Lang

3. Connective Toxicity? A Corpus-Based Critical Discourse Analysis of Narratives and Linguistic Structures in Anti-Feminist Japanese Tweets

Tamara Fuchs

4. Agency and Strategic Restraint: Media Framing and The Price of Not Taking Offence in Japanese Political Discourse

Yoko Yonezawa

5. Bytes of Bias: Offensive Language Towards Females and Males in Japanese Online Discourse

Xiangdong Liu

Part 2: Racist language and linguistic discrimination

6. Don't call me Cina: The racial politics of ethnonyms for Chinese Indonesians

Jessica Kruk

7. The ‘K’-Word: Racialized Label and Linguistic Othering of South Asians in Southeast Asia

Najib Noorashid and Chang-Yau Hoon

8. Linguistic discrimination and subordination: North Korean refugees in South Korea

Mi Yung Park and Lucien Brown

Part 3: Online hate speech and disembodied toxicity

9. Socio-pragmatic analysis of hate speech in Korean YouTube comments

Narah Lee

10. Don’t like her-Impoliteness in Danmaku comments

Yongping Ran and Xiao Yi Bi

11. Much Ado About Nothing: Japanese Metalinguistic Discourses About Vulgarity in Ado’s Usseewa

Wes Robertson

12. Techno-cultural affordances and toxic language practices in South Korea

Eldin Milak and Rachel Berryman

Part 4: Ironic language across online and offline spaces

13. Interactional particles, irony and handling “toxic” language with care in Indonesian youth interactions

Howard Manns

14. I may not be thanking you when I say “I thank you”: Understanding 我谢谢你 “I thank you” in Chinese online discourse

Xinren Chen and Zepeng Wang

Editor(s)

Biography

Lucien Brown is Korea Foundation Associate Professor in Korean Studies at Monash University, Australia.

Xi Chen is Assistant Professor in Linguistics and Multilingual Studies at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore.

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