[Commlist] CFP: Grammar of Hate panel at the 8th CADAAD conference

CFP: Grammar of Hate panel at the 8th CADAAD conference, July 7-9 2020, 
University of Huddersfield, U.K.

Researchers of verbal aggression, “othering” and dehumanization in 
discourse, hate speech, and similar fields are invited to submit 
proposals for a thematic panel at the upcoming Critical Approaches to 
Discourse Analysis Across Disciplines (CADAAD) conference on July 7-9, 
2020 (https://2020cadaad.wordpress.com). The panel aims to examine 
grammatical features of hateful, aggressive, and dehumanizing language 
as the majority of existing research has concentrated on the lexical 
aspects of such type of communication (e.g., Erjavec & Kovačič, 2012; 
Knoblock, 2017; Leets & Giles, 1997; Lillian, 2007; Musolff, 2015), and 
its grammatical peculiarities remain largely unexplored.

We are interested to examine a possible link between hateful intentions 
or the speakers, their lexical choices, and the grammatical 
characteristics of the speech that aims to hurt, dehumanize, and 
marginalize groups or individuals.  We welcome a variety of research 
approaches and various methodologies, including quantitative, 
qualitative, or mixed. We would like to see projects conducted in 
different geographic, political, socio-cultural, and economic settings, 
and to bring together scholars from several fields, such as linguistics, 
discourse analysis, communication and media studies, among others. We 
hope to expand the scope of hate speech research by focusing on the 
grammatical aspects in addition to the lexical and discursive ones.

Some of (but not limited to) the possible topics to investigate could 
include:
- manipulation of personal pronouns
- usage of neuter morphological markings where masculine of feminine are 
expected (if used with nefarious intent)
- usage of inanimate morphology where animate is expected (in languages 
that differentiate them)
- nontraditional usage of mass/countable nouns if used with nefarious 
intent to dehumanize groups of people
- syntactic patters characteristic of hate speech and “othering”
This list, of course, is not exhaustive, and other topics not itemized 
here are welcome as long as they involve manipulation of grammatical 
features with an intent to denigrate, insult, and dehumanize the referent.

Please send your abstract of up to 400 words (excluding references) to 
(cadaadpanel /at/ gmail.com) by November 20, 2019. In your abstract, please 
clearly state the aims and research questions of your paper, its 
theoretical foundations, the data and methods used to analyse it, as 
well as some of the findings.
The panel is organized by Natalia Knoblock (Saginaw Valley State 
University) and Magda Stroinska (McMaster University). If you have any 
questions, please do not hesitate to contact us at (nlknoblo /at/ svsu.edu) or 
(cadaadpanel /at/ gmail.com) .

References:
Erjavec, K., & Kovačič, M. P. (2012). “You Don't Understand, This is a 
New War!” Analysis of Hate Speech in News Web Sites' Comments. Mass 
Communication and Society, 15(6), 899-920.
Knoblock, N. (2017). Xenophobic Trumpeters: A corpus-assisted discourse 
study of Donald Trump's Facebook conversations. Journal of Language 
Aggression and Conflict, 5(2), 295-322.
Leets, L., & Giles, H. (1997). Words as weapons—when do they wound? 
Investigations of harmful speech. Human Communication Research, 24(2), 
260-301.
Lillian, D. L. (2007). A thorn by any other name: sexist discourse as 
hate speech. Discourse & Society, 18(6), 719-740.
Musolff, A. (2015). Dehumanizing metaphors in UK immigrant debates in 
press and online media. Journal of Language Aggression and Conflict, 
3(1), 41-56.


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