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Date: Fri, 07 Aug 2020 11:16:50
From: Marton Petyko [m.petyko at aston.ac.uk]
Subject: Offensive language on social media

 
Full Title: Offensive language on social media 

Date: 27-Jun-2021 - 02-Jul-2021
Location: Winterthur, Switzerland 
Contact Person: Marton Petyko
Meeting Email: m.petyko at aston.ac.uk
Web Site: https://pragmatics.international/page/Program2021 

Linguistic Field(s): Applied Linguistics; Discourse Analysis; Forensic Linguistics; Pragmatics; Text/Corpus Linguistics 

Call Deadline: 25-Oct-2020 

Meeting Description:

Organisers:
Tahmineh Tayebi, Aston University (UK)
Marton Petyko, Aston University (UK)

Online social media, including Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, YouTube, TikTok,
Snapchat, Reddit, blogs, and forums, has become a key venue for exchanging
ideas and communicating with others. Whilst social media platforms can enable
constructive and insightful conversations, offensive language, including
verbal aggression and abuse, harassment, cyberbullying, trolling, misogynistic
and hate speech, among others, is a widespread phenomenon in online settings
and have damaging effects on social media users (Rösner & Krämer, 2016).
Although recent years have seen a growing academic interest in offensive
language on social media (Kienpointner, 2018; Parvaresh and Tayebi, 2018),
there is still a lot we need to learn about how such offensive language is
used and perceived across different languages and social media platforms.

The aim of this panel is therefore to address the cross-lingual and
intercultural dimensions of offensive language online by bringing together
researchers who are interested in how offensive language and its various
manifestations, including verbal aggression and abuse, harassment,
cyberbullying, online trolling, misogynistic and hate speech, are constructed,
utilised, perceived and tackled on various social media platforms across
different languages, cultures, and domains.


Call for Papers: 

We invite submissions concerning all linguistic and social aspects of
offensive language online across different languages, cultures, social media
platforms, and online communities. While we welcome contributions drawing on
English data, we especially encourage researchers working on offensive
language online in languages other than English to submit their proposals. The
topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
- the context-, domain-, and culture-sensitive nature of offensive language
online
- the perceptions of offensive language and social norms in online communities
- offensive language online and (im)politeness theory
- the metapragmatic discourses around offensive language online
- distinguishing explicit from implicit offensive language online
- metaphors, tropes, narratives and other devices used in offensive language
on social media
- the possible role of intentionality and offensive language online
- target-specific aspects of offensive language online based on gender,
ethnicity, and religion
- corpora, annotation schemes and other resources and methods for analysing
offensive language online

Panel contributions should be submitted by 25 October 2020 via the IPrA 2021
online submission system. Please see the IPRA 2021 website
(https://pragmatics.international/page/CfP) for details. Submissions for panel
contributions should take the form of a 250-500 word abstract outlining the
scope and aim of the presentation. All proposals will be peer-reviewed by the
panel organisers in accordance with the reviewing policy of the main
conference. Accepted proposals will be given a 30-minute slot (20 minutes for
presentation and 10 minutes for discussion). If you have any questions
regarding the panel or wish to express your interest in participating, please
contact Marton Petyko at m.petyko at aston.ac.uk

References:
Kienpointner, M. (2018). Impoliteness online. Hate speech in online
interactions. Internet Pragmatics 1(2), 329–351.
O’Driscoll, J. (2020). Offensive Language: Taboo, Offence and Social Control.
London: Bloomsbury.
Parvaresh, V., & Tayebi, T. (2018). Impoliteness, aggression and the moral
order. Journal of Pragmatics 132, 91-107.
Rösner, L. & Krämer, N.C. (2016). Verbal Venting in the Social Web: Effects of
Anonymity and Group Norms on Aggressive Language Use in Online Comments.
Social Media + Society 2(3), 1–13.




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