Mowa nienawiści ze względu na przynależność etniczną i narodową w komunikacji internetowej
Ethnically and Ntionally Motivated hate Speech in Internet Communication

A Comparative Analysis of Polish and German

Author(s): Magdalena Jaszczyk-Grzyb
Subject(s): Social Sciences, Language and Literature Studies, Applied Linguistics, Communication studies, Sociolinguistics, German Literature, Polish Literature
Published by: Wydawnictwo Naukowe Uniwersytetu Adama Mickiewicza
Keywords: hate speech; Internet communication; social media; critical discourse analysis; corpus linguistics
Summary/Abstract: The present monograph investigates online language production which includes hate speech (henceforth HS) motivated by the ethnic or national identity of its addressee (operationalised as ethnically and nationally motivated HS) in Polish and German Internet-based communication. The hate discourse examined in the monograph concerns four groups (Muslims, Roma, Ukrainians and Jews). To achieve this goal, a methodology combining the assumptions of critical discourse analysis and corpus linguistics was developed. First a comparable corpus of ethnically and nationally motivated hate speech in Polish and German Internet communication was compiled, including public posts and comments posted on the social network Facebook. A total of 1185 posts was analysed, including several thousand comments posted from 2018–2019 and January 2020. In the course of a qualitative analysis, hateful discursive practices towards particular minority groups were identified and presented in a comparative view. This was followed by an analysis of frequency lists, keyword lists, collocations and concordanc

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