Contenu du sommaire : Discours de haine dans les réseaux socionumériques

On the basis of two corpora comprised of far-right speech and comments, we study the discursive strategies that are deployed to convince people of the New World Order and the Great Replacement theory in online debates in Cyprus and Italy. We examine in particular how hate speech foregrounds such transnational propaganda with for example the common topos “foreigners must be neutralized”, and how this topos is extended through metaphors (immigration – invasion – national genocide) and outrageous generalizations that are common to both corpora.

This article studies the linguistic and discursive cues of homophobia in a You
Tube discussion related to a documentary on homophobia. The analysis of argumentative and syntactic structures aims to identify the linguistic manifestations of homophobia in an online discussion forum. Based on the results, the definition of hate speech and the performative nature thereof are discussed.

This paper discusses the “Ligue du LOL” affair that erupted in French media in 2019. The case involved a group of young journalists and communications professionals who were accused of harassment by users of the Twitter social network. We will look at the conditions that led to the possibility of this now-decried speech in order to get away from technical or pathological explanations of hate speech. We will thus demonstrate that the speech of the Ligue du LOL is made possible by the encounter between pre-existing capital imported from the field of journalism and the logic of audiences that is specific to Twitter.

This research studies hate speech against journalists and news media based on a corpus of tweets containing three emblematic insults against them in the form of portmanteau words: “merdia” (a blend of the French terms “média” [news media] and “merde” [shit]), “journalope” (a combination of the French terms “journaliste” [journalist] and “salope” [whore]) and “presstituée” (a combination of the French terms “presse” [press] and “prostituée” [prostitute]). The tweets were collected in the aftermath of the 2017 French presidential election. A statistical and qualitative analysis allows us to identify the objects of hatred and rejection as well as the levels of intensity of these hate messages. The study shows that the content of the tweets goes beyond the usual criticism of journalistic work because here, the criticism is largely based on radical political positioning, most often associated with the far right. This places this anti-journalistic hate speech in a broader context of deep mistrust towards elites and political figures.

This article seeks to contextualise hate speech as developed by critical race theory in order to show how universities, which have broadly regulated free speech on campus, have paradoxically contributed to the emergence of a culture of hate speech in social media that has led to attacks on the institution itself.

This interview is devoted to issues and strategies aimed at the updating of rhetoric. It explores ways to counteract the phenomena of post-truth, radicalism and conspiracy and questions the complicated links between persuasion and criticism. In addition to epistemological questions, it explores the interdisciplinarity that makes it possible to develop rhetorical exercises, in order to adapt this discipline to today's society.