Toxic Language in East Asia

Lucien Brown is Korea Foundation Associate Professor of Korean Studies at Monash University, Australia.Xi Chen is Assistant Professor of Linguistics and Multilingual Studies at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore.

• 1. Introduction: Toxic languagePart 1: Sexism, gendered language and toxic masculinity2. Justifiable Toxicity: Perceptions, Shifting Meanings, and Usages of “Straight Man Cancer”3. Connective Toxicity? A Corpus-Based Critical Discourse Analysis of Narratives and Linguistic Structures in Anti-Feminist Japanese Tweets4. Agency and Strategic Restraint: Media Framing and The Price of Not Taking Offence in Japanese Political Discourse5. Bytes of Bias: Offensive Language Towards Females and Males in Japanese Online DiscoursePart 2: Racist language and linguistic discrimination6. Don't call me Cina: The racial politics of ethnonyms for Chinese Indonesians7. The ‘K’-Word: Racialized Label and Linguistic Othering of South Asians in Southeast Asia8. Linguistic discrimination and subordination: North Korean refugees in South KoreaPart 3: Online hate speech and disembodied toxicity9. Socio-pragmatic analysis of hate speech in Korean YouTube comments10. Don’t like her-Impoliteness in Danmaku comments11. Much Ado About Nothing: Japanese Metalinguistic Discourses About Vulgarity in Ado’s Usseewa12. Techno-cultural affordances and toxic language practices in South KoreaPart 4: Ironic language across online and offline spaces13. Interactional particles, irony and handling “toxic” language with care in Indonesian youth interactions14. I may not be thanking you when I say “I thank you”: Understanding 我谢谢你 “I thank you” in Chinese online discourse