Mowa nienawiści – ujęcie prawne, językowe i filozoficzne
Hate speech – its legal, linguistic and philosophical conceptualisation

Summary/Abstract: Objective: The multiplication of information exchange in the internet era inevitably also extends into aggressive communication, especially because communicating via digital devices produces a false feeling of impunity. In this context, it is worth inquiring how to define hate speech (1) and in what manner such elements of the speech act are realised – identity, sender, intention (illocutionary content), receiver, perlocution – in the case of a hateful communication (2). Methods: To reach these research goals, it is necessary to analyse basic legal concepts describing hate speech, then compare them and determine the context of communication acts with similar intention and defined in the penal code. These include defamation, insult, and punishable threat in the penal code, which are akin to hate speech. Results and cognitive value: This consideration has been presented with the help of the philosophy of language, to build a model of such communication and also to show its limiting features, i.e., this kind of transmission of information seems to contradict the essence of communication.

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