Foids are worse than animals. A cognitive linguistics analysis of dehumanizing metaphors in online discourse
Foids are worse than animals. A cognitive linguistics analysis of dehumanizing metaphors in online discourse
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食物比动物还糟糕。
作者：
E. Prażmo
摘要这篇文章的目的是研究一种名为incels的新兴在线社区所使用的语言。Incels是“不由自主地独身”的男人，他们聚集在网上分享他们的沮丧和怨恨。他们将自己的困境归咎于所谓的丑陋，以及现代西方社会的总体结构，特别是女性的行为。仇恨言论和暴力语言在INCEL在线论坛上猖獗，以至于由于违反了有关暴力内容的规定，他们的大多数网站都被逐一关闭。在这篇文章中，我旨在分析英塞尔所使用的语言，重点是为了描述女性而使用的非人性化的隐喻，而女性是英塞尔仇恨的主要目标。本文是在认知语言学和批评性语篇分析的理论框架下实现的，其中特别强调了概念隐喻理论。
Abstract The aim of the article is to examine the language used by an emerging online community known as incels. Incels are “involuntarily celibate” men who gather online to share their frustration and resentment. They blame their predicament on their alleged ugliness, as well as on the structure of modern Western society in general, and women’s behaviour in particular. Hate speech and violent language flourish on incel online forums to such an extent that most of their websites are taken down, one by one, due to breaches of rules around violent content. In the present article I aim to analyze the language used by incels, focusing on the dehumanizing metaphors used in order to describe women, who are the main target of incels’ hatred. This paper was realized within the theoretical framework of cognitive linguistics and critical discourse analysis with special emphasis on conceptual metaphor theory.