Law, Linguistics and the Far Right

International Perspectives on Verbal Attacks on Vulnerable Groups
1. Auflage 2026
ISBN: 978-1-041-20676-7
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Buch, Englisch, 292 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm

This book examines how verbal and symbolic aggression and hostility directed at women and LGBT+ people operate across linguistic, multimodal, legal, and institutional domains, and how these practices contribute to discursive, democratic, and constitutional erosion. Bringing together interdisciplinary perspectives from linguistics, discourse and media studies, gender and queer theory, constitutional law, and human-rights scholarship, the volume addresses forms of aggression and hostility ranging from insults, ridicule, and digitally mediated shaming to metaphors of contamination, symbolic erasure, administrative practices, and doctrinal silence.

Through comparative analyses of cases from Brazil, Germany, Italy, Poland, China, and the European human rights system, the chapters show how these practices shape political communication, institutional behavior, and legal meaning-making, thereby affecting visibility, dignity, participation, and the practical enjoyment of rights. The volume highlights recurring mechanisms, such as purity and protection narratives, victim-perpetrator inversion, and multimodal amplification, that travel across platforms, political systems, and institutional settings.

The book demonstrates how verbal and symbolic aggression functions not only as an isolated speech act but as a cross-contextual mechanism with cumulative democratic and constitutional effects. The volume will be of interest to scholars and advanced students in law, linguistics, media and communication studies, gender studies, political science, and human rights.

Zielgruppe

Academic and Postgraduate

Autoren/Hrsg.

Drinóczi, Tímea

Larissa Oliveira, Ana

Fachgebiete

• Rechtswissenschaften Recht, Rechtswissenschaft Allgemein Rechtsvergleichung
• Rechtswissenschaften Arbeitsrecht Antidiskriminierung (AGG), Gleichbehandlung
• Rechtswissenschaften Recht, Rechtswissenschaft Allgemein Rechtssoziologie, Rechtspsychologie, Rechtslinguistik
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Rechtssoziologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Kultur Menschenrechte, Bürgerrechte
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Soziolinguistik
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Systeme Demokratie
• Rechtswissenschaften Öffentliches Recht Staats- und Verfassungsrecht

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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.

Über Autor(innen)

Ana Larissa Oliveira is a Professor at the Federal University of Minas Gerais, Brazil and Institute of Communication, University of Münster, Germany.

Tímea Drinóczi is a Professor at Mykolas Romeris University, Lithuania.