Hate speech: Definitions, interpretations and practices
Edited by Fabienne H. Baider, Sharon Millar and Stavros Assimakopoulos
Special issue of Pragmatics and Society 11:2 (2020) v, 165 pp.
Stavros Assimakopoulos
List of John Benjamins publications in which Stavros Assimakopoulos is involved.
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Current Issues in Intercultural Pragmatics
Edited by István Kecskés and Stavros Assimakopoulos
Having been established as a field in its own right for the last decade, intercultural pragmatics is increasingly being recognized as an important area of research among scholars working in pragmatics. The present volume is a collection of selected papers from the 6th International Conference on… read more[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 274] 2017. vii, 369 pp.
2025 Using humour to call out racism: Taking offence on political satire ‘Only joking’: Negotiating offensive humour in interaction, Elder, Chi-Hé, Eleni Kapogianni and Ibi Baxter-Webb (eds.), pp. 178–207 | Article
Pragmatic accounts of speaker’s accountability over the intended import of utterances recognize that, when engaging in a non-serious, humorous mode of communication, speakers may not be held committed to what they have said (or implicated). Still, the overt signalling of jocular intent does not… read more
2024 Chapter 5. Liquid racism, metaphor and the visual modality Exploring the Ambivalence of Liquid Racism: In between antiracist and racist discourse, Archakis, Argiris and Villy Tsakona (eds.), pp. 118–142 | Chapter
The extant literature on liquid racism has focused primarily on the rhetorical impact of humor. In this Chapter, we shift the focus to the role of metaphor as a means of conceptualization. Drawing on ideas and tools from the fields of critical discourse studies, conceptual metaphor theory and… read more
2022 Sailing to Ithaka : The transmutation of Greek left-populism in discourses about the European Union (De)legitimising EUrope in times of crisis, Zappettini, Franco and Samuel Bennett (eds.), pp. 344–369 | Article
This paper examines the reasoning lines in PM Alexis Tsipras’ political discourse in critical moments of SYRIZA’s tenure as the ruling party in Greece. Adopting a CDS perspective, we zoom in on the patterns that underlie the (de)legitimization of the crisis-ridden EU in three seminal speeches by… read more
2021 Beyond meaning NN and ostension: Pragmatic inference in the wild Beyond Meaning, Ifantidou, Elly, Louis de Saussure and Tim Wharton (eds.), pp. 11–28 | Chapter
Inferential pragmatics is typically considered to deal exclusively with meaning that has been overtly and intentionally communicated. This paper sets out to investigate whether this established domain of enquiry can be extended to include instances of information transmission that may not be… read more
2021 Interpretation, relevance and the ideological effects of discursive practice New Developments in Relevance Theory, Padilla Cruz, Manuel and Agnieszka Piskorska (eds.), pp. 394–415 | Article
Research in Critical Discourse Studies has for long recognised the central role that both direct and indirect communicative strategies play in the reproduction of social inequality, but a main proponent of this approach has expressed scepticism with regard to the contribution that theories of… read more
2020 Incitement to discriminatory hatred, illocution and perlocution Hate speech: Definitions, interpretations and practices, Baider, Fabienne H., Sharon Millar and Stavros Assimakopoulos (eds.), pp. 177–195 | Article
Even though there seem to be no objectively defined criteria about what constitutes hate speech, a lot of legislation and policy making currently aims at combating it. This paper sets out to define hate speech under its standard legal understanding of ‘incitement to discriminatory hatred’, by… read more
2020 Introduction: Defining, performing and countering hate speech Hate speech: Definitions, interpretations and practices, Baider, Fabienne H., Sharon Millar and Stavros Assimakopoulos (eds.), pp. 171–176 | Introduction
2017 Introduction Current Issues in Intercultural Pragmatics, Kecskés, István and Stavros Assimakopoulos (eds.), pp. 1–6 | Introduction