34.1179, Calls: Hate Speech at the Crossroads of Aggression, Anxiety, and Resonance: from linguistics to politics and beyond

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Subject: 34.1179, Calls: Hate Speech at the Crossroads of Aggression, Anxiety, and Resonance: from linguistics to politics and beyond

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Date: 12-Apr-2023
From: Damaso Izquierdo-Alegría [dizquierdo at unav.es]
Subject: Hate Speech at the Crossroads of Aggression, Anxiety, and Resonance: from linguistics to politics and beyond

Full Title: Hate Speech at the Crossroads of Aggression, Anxiety, and
Resonance: from linguistics to politics and beyond

Date: 06-Jun-2023 - 07-Jun-2023
Location: Pamplona, Spain
Contact Person: Melike Akkaraca Kose
Meeting Email: makkaracako at unav.es
Web Site: https://www.unav.edu/documents/2832169/30911341/call-for-pap
ers-june-2023.pdf/

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

Call Deadline: 30-Apr-2023

Meeting Description:

Nowadays, prototypical instances of hate speech originating in
extremist circles coexist with many other more implicit messages that
spread through mainstream media and actors. Since these resonate with
various groups in society, they often end up being shared by many
different users in social networks. This has led to the trivialization
of verbal aggression and exclusionary discourses, and promotes an
underlying atmosphere of anxiety and insecurity that has an impact on
everyday life. This symposium aims to create an interdisciplinary
venue for discussion to explore more closely the relations between
aggressively exclusionary discourses with a special focus on hate
speech and perceptions of insecurity accompanied by feelings of
anxiety and alienation.
The phenomenon of hate speech extends from populist, nativist,
ultra-nationalist and xenophobic political discourses to everyday
interaction within civil society, and from media communication to
ordinary people’s practices in social media or face to face. In order
to understand the far-reaching spread of hate speech, this call is
especially interested in, but not limited to, research on the
linguistic, pragmatic, semiotic or discursive characteristics of hate
speech; on the underlying social, psychological and socio-economic
factors or possible social and political consequences of hate speech;
on how discourses of hate and exclusion resonate with specific
individuals or groups and why; on how such discourses tap into and
amplify pre-existing anxieties and insecurities or even create new
ones for the targeted and targeting groups.
In recent years, a large volume of research on this subject has been
produced by scholars from different disciplinary backgrounds. From a
linguistic perspective, for example, one relevant area is how hate
speech is verbally constructed and performed, with particular
attention to the different linguistic and discursive patterns used to
express hatred or contempt (Assimakopoulos et al. 2017; Knoblock
2022), including slurs (Technau 2018), dehumanising metaphors (Sakki &
Castrén 2022) and other impoliteness strategies (Culpeper 2021;
Guillén-Nieto 2023). Other studies have approached covert hate speech
(Baider 2022) by deconstructing the implicit strategies used in its
construction, such as humour, irony (Baider & Constantinou 2017; Fuchs
& Schäfer 2020) or hedging (Baumgarten et al. 2019: 95-97).
On the other hand, ontological security studies in political science
already take seriously both the structural and the psychological
aspects of exclusionary discourses and add to the literature on
belongingness and rejection by looking at the perceived or imagined
anxieties of individuals and groups (Kinnvall, 2019). Such research
explores the ways in which the stigmatizing and dehumanizing
discourses against ‘others’ may convey unity, certainty and safety to
in-groups (Kinnvall, 2004). The current research in the area also
studies how ontological security is continuously challenged for the
groups who are victims of stigmatization and hate speech, how
discursive violence against marginalized groups and social minorities
promotes anxieties, fear and distrust (Anouck Côrte-Real Pinto &
David, 2019; Botterill et. al., 2019), or how hate speech against
LGBTI+ both derives from the challenged ontological security of one
group but also leads to ontological insecurity within the other group
in a polarized political environment (Ozduzen & Korkut, 2020).

Call for Papers:

Hate speech is a such complex, multifaceted phenomenon that it cannot
be fully understood within the boundaries of a single discipline but
needs to be addressed from an interdisciplinary approach. In addition
to Political Science and Linguistics, many other disciplines, such as
Law, Communication Studies, Cultural Studies, Humanities, Psychology,
Sociology or Big Data, have also shown interest on this topic. This
conference aims at bringing together advances on research about hate
speech carried out from different disciplines and methodologies at the
intersection of insecurity, anxiety and
resonance.

We welcome presentations that provide innovative answers to these
research questions (the list is not exhaustive):
- How is hate speech defined and distinguished from other types of
abusive language and verbal aggression? Which parameters (e.g.
linguistic, sociologic, political, legal, etc.) might be useful to
better identify it?
- How is hate speech performed and construed? Where and how does it
spread? What makes some types of hate speech so influential?
- Which social actors are involved? What are the social and
psychological effects triggered by hate speech?
- How does hate speech interfere with the social perception of
(in)security and anxiety? How can IR studies contribute with the
notion of “ontological security”?
- Where should the borders be set between hate speech and freedom of
speech? How can different disciplines (Law, Linguistics, IR, among
others) contribute to this debate?
- How is hate speech being countered? How can different disciplines
use their expertise to reduce the influence of hate speech?
- What are the underlying social, psychological and socio-economic
factors behind hate speech, and what are its possible social and
political consequences?
- How do discourses of hate and exclusion resonate with which
individuals or groups and why?
- How do exclusionary discourses (stigmatizing, dehumanizing, racist,
misogynist or islamophobic discourses) amplify already existing
anxieties and insecurities, or create new ones for the targeted and
targeting groups?
- How could more interdisciplinary or multidisciplinary approaches and
methodologies be developed to study hate speech and how would this
contribute to the research in the area?

We very much look forward to your paper submissions and presentations
for the upcoming hybrid symposium at the Instituto Cultura y Sociedad,
Universidad de Navarra.
Format: The symposium will be held in hybrid format (online and
in-person) and hosted by Zoom Meetings (to be confirmed).
Submissions: Submissions will be evaluated by the scientific committee
of the conference. Invited speakers will have 20 minutes to present
their paper. Those interested in participating should send a 300-word
abstract by 30 April 2023. The conference will be held in English and
attendance is free. Certificates of attendance and participation will
be provided.

IMPORTANT DATES
Submission deadline: April 30, 2023
Notification of acceptance: May 10, 2023

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