Abstract: After the 2015 Paris attacks, hate speech against Muslims gathered momentum and further legitimized in popular media outlets across Europe. After "decades of sustained and unrestrained anti-foreigner abuse, misinformation and distortion", the United Nations accused some British newspapers of "hate speech" (ECRI 2016). Following on previous research (Sindoni 2016, 2017), this paper sets out to investigate how hate speech in mainstream British media is constructed both verbally and multimodally, with particular reference to the investigation of r...
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Media studies
Linguistics