LINGUIST List 33.473
Mon Feb 07 2022
Calls: Comp Ling, Disc Analysis, Pragmatics, Socioling, Text/Corpus Ling/Portugal
Editor for this issue: Everett Green <everettlinguistlist.org>
Date: 05-Feb-2022
From: Isabel Ermida <iermida
elach.uminho.pt>
Subject: International Conference on Online Hate Speech
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Date: 07-Jul-2022 - 09-Jul-2022
Location: Braga, Portugal
Contact Person: Isabel Ermida
Meeting Email:
< click here to access email > Web Site:
https://sites.google.com/view/hate-speech-conference
Linguistic Field(s): Computational Linguistics; Discourse Analysis; Pragmatics; Sociolinguistics; Text/Corpus Linguistics
Call Deadline: 31-Mar-2022
Meeting Description:
The conference stems from a three-year project involving researchers from five countries, in which a large corpus of online verbal interactions was extracted from online social media and annotated for analysis. The analytical results will be presented at the conference, which aims to attract external participation from scholars and students interested in the widespread and ever-growing expression of hate, prejudice and discrimination in computer-mediated social platforms.
Call for Papers:
We welcome 300-word abstracts for 20-minute oral presentations on a variety of topics dealing with the broad phenomenon of hate on the Internet, with a special focus on reader comments and interactions. Proposals should be sent by email to Ms Filipa Pereira at a81712
alunos.uminho.pt (see ''Abstract submission'' page).
Possible topics include, but are not restricted to:
Language patterns for hate speech detection
Hate speech vs. aggressive speech: definition challenges
Sociolinguistic variables of online hate speech
Impoliteness Studies and Hate Speech Analysis
Speech act patterns in hate speech (insulting, threatening, inciting, accusing...)
Pragmatic strategies in hate speech: othering, blame reversal, denial, agency deletion...
Humor, ridicule and indirectness in online hate speech
Building and annotating hate speech corpora
NLP (Natural Language Processing) of Online Hate Speech
Hate speech victimization
Legal issues in online hate speech
Analysis of online hate speech in learning and teaching contexts
Hate speech vs. free speech: philosophical and political implications
Types of prejudice in online hate speech: profiling authors and targets
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