Projektnummer

0072565

Zusammenfassung

Hate speech represents a documented threat to democratic discourse: if a large number of people no longer dare to participate in discussions, a majority will be silenced. What is particularly problematic is that hate speech spreads rapidly online. However, the few studies conducted to date on the dynamics of its spread have automatically identified hate speech on the basis of insult words. But hate speech has many linguistic forms: it can also occur without explicit linguistic indicators of hatred or implicitly.As an inter- and transdisciplinary task force with members from the fields of lingu...