Law, Linguistics and the Far Right

Tímea Drinóczi is a professor at Mykolas Romeris University, Lithuania.Ana Larissa Oliveira is a professor at the Federal University of Minas Gerais, Brazil, and the Institute of Communication, University of Münster, Germany.

• Introduction to Law, Linguistics and the Far Right: International Perspectives on Verbal Attacks on Vulnerable Groups, Tímea Drinóczi and Ana Larissa Oliveira; Part I – Conceptual and Empirical Foundations: Brazil; 1. Models of Linguistic Impoliteness: A Theoretical Framework for Digitally Mediated Far-Right Discourse, Ana Larissa Oliveira and Tímea Drinóczi; 2. Methodological Approaches and Data – A Brazilian Case Study, Monique Miranda, Ana Larissa Oliveira, Tímea Drinóczi, and Isabel Peixoto; 3. Online Verbal Attacks on Women in Power: A Brazilian Case Study, Ana Larissa Oliveira, Tímea Drinóczi, and Monique Miranda; 4. The Era of the Short Political Video Clips: Antiprogressive Rhetoric in the Brazilian New-Right Social Media Ecology, Paulo Gonçalves-Segundo; Part II – From Digital Hostility to Institutional Power: Global, Legal and Political Perspectives; 5. Female Politicians as Targets of Cyber Violence: Exploring International Discourse on Response Strategies, Lídia Balogh; 6. How Chinese Players Respond to Queerness in Video Games: Right-Wing Discursive Attacks in Chinese Online Gaming Communities, Yue Yin and Johnny Unger; 7. How the far-right silencing and subsequent lynching mainstreamed the feminist and queer perspectives of Polish constitutionalism and what to do with it, Marcin Górski; 8. Italian Right-Wing Parties and the Anti-Gender Discourse: Between Free Speech and Political Strategies, Valentina Rita Scotti and Emilia Morra; Part III – Multimodal aggression and hostility in law, politics, and public culture; 9. Maintaining Social Order Through Exclusion: Multimodal Impoliteness and LGBTQ+ Marginalisation in Radical Right Social Media, Xandra Knappe and Birte Bös; 10. From Self-Determination to Sichtkontrolle: Leakiness, Law, and the Governance of Trans Bodies in Germany, Rieke Schröder; 11. How to Deal with Misogynistic Speech? Lessons from the ECtHR's Case Law on Homophobic Hate Discourse, Irene Spigno.

'This interdisciplinary volume offers invaluable insights into the new modes of linguistic behavior that are shaping the current political sphere and impacting groups in vulnerable positions. The chapters address these issues from different conceptual and disciplinary viewpoints, providing cutting-edge knowledge on the urgent matters that are eroding democracy and undermining human rights. The book combines conceptual sharpness with empirical rigor and international scope, delivering a perception of essential import.'Marcelo Parreira do Amaral, University of Münster, Germany.