Gendered Hate Speech in Swiss WhatsApp Messages

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dc.identifier	ECF_chapter_4712
dc.contributor.author	Binder Larissa
dc.contributor.author	Stark Elisabeth
dc.contributor.author	Ueberwasser Simone
dc.title	Gendered Hate Speech in Swiss WhatsApp Messages
dc.type	Chapter
dc.language.iso	en
dc.description.abstract	This paper provides a first manual analysis of the use of 14 gender-specific swear words in Swiss WhatsApp messages in (Swiss) German, French and Italian. We will show that gender-specific swear words only concern non-participants of the discourse when used offensively, in our data. When such items are directly addressed to the interlocutor, they are rather used ironically or even hypocoristically. Furthermore, we will show that gendered hate speech in this context is not a matter of mutual discrimination by the two sexes, but that Swiss WhatsApp users also refer to people of their own sex using gender-specific swear words.
dc.relation.ispartof	Quaderni del Comitato Unico di Garanzia dell’Università Ca’ Foscari Venezia
dc.publisher	Edizioni Ca’ Foscari - Digital Publishing, Fondazione Università Ca’ Foscari
dc.issued	2020-12-29
dc.identifier.uri	http://edizionicafoscari.it/en/edizioni4/libri/978-88-6969-479-0/gendered-hate-speech-in-swiss-whatsapp-messages/
dc.identifier.doi	10.30687/978-88-6969-478-3/003
dc.identifier.issn	2724-4652
dc.identifier.eissn	2724-5713
dc.identifier.isbn	978-88-6969-479-0
dc.identifier.eisbn	978-88-6969-478-3
dc.rights	Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Public License
dc.rights.uri	http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
item.fulltext	with fulltext
item.grantfulltext	open
dc.peer-review	yes
dc.subject	Gender Perception
dc.subject	Gender Perception
dc.subject	Gender Representation
dc.subject	Gender Representation
dc.subject	Gender Stereotypes
dc.subject	Gender Stereotypes
dc.subject	Gender-Specific Swear Words
dc.subject	Gender-Specific Swear Words
dc.subject	Gendered Hate Speech
dc.subject	Gendered Hate Speech
dc.subject	WhatsApp Communication
dc.subject	WhatsApp Communication

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Gendered Hate Speech in Swiss WhatsApp Messages

Larissa Binder University of Zurich, Switzerland

Simone Ueberwasser University of Zurich, Switzerland

Elisabeth Stark University of Zurich, Switzerland

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This paper provides a first manual analysis of the use of 14 gender-specific swear words in Swiss WhatsApp messages in (Swiss) German, French and Italian. We will show that gender-specific swear words only concern non-participants of the discourse when used offensively, in our data. When such items are directly addressed to the interlocutor, they are rather used ironically or even hypocoristically. Furthermore, we will show that gendered hate speech in this context is not a matter of mutual discrimination by the two sexes, but that Swiss WhatsApp users also refer to people of their own sex using gender-specific swear words.

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Dec. 29, 2020

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978-88-6969-479-0

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978-88-6969-478-3

Keywords: Gender Perception • Gender Representation • Gender Stereotypes • Gender-Specific Swear Words • WhatsApp Communication • Gendered Hate Speech

permalink: http://doi.org/10.30687/978-88-6969-478-3/003

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