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These Words Hurt! Communicative Strategies to Counter Hate Speech
| Resumo: | This dissertation is about communicative strategies that social movements can follow to confront hate speech. To achieve this purpose, three strands of theory are covered: political theory, philosophy of language, and argumentation theory. The dissertation is divided into two parts. The first part involves a descriptive study of protests and hate speech in philosophical terms. Chapter 2 argues that protests have a communicative dimension that speech act theory can make explicit. Protests are characterised as group speech acts that express opposition with connected prescriptions for change. Chapter 3 develops a philosophical analysis of hate speech used against social movements. Hate speech is defined as public expressions that discriminate and subordinate the victim by virtue of their membership in (or their representation of) a vulnerable group. It is argued that hate speech subordinates protesters by rendering them not worthy of engagement and of even consideration in the public sphere. In addition, it distorts protests as social threats. The second part of the dissertation proposes a normative analysis of communicative strategies for dealing with hate speech. Chapter 4 lays out the theoretical foundations of the proposal by studying protests and hate speech in argumentative terms. The chapter also studies argumentative strategies for dealing with hate speech that social movements could implement. After outlining the limitations of ‘arguing with hate speakers’ and ‘advocating a dialogue with restrictions’, a strategy of ‘argumentative disobedience’ is suggested as preferable for social movements. Argumentative disobedience occurs when social movements expose the harms of hate speech to bystanders in order to strengthen their position in public debate. Finally, Chapter 5 looks at how the feminist movement in Spain confronted hate speech, showing how protesters devised communicative strategies which I define in terms of ‘argumentative disobedience’. |
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| Autores principais: | Domínguez Armas, Álvaro |
| Assunto: | Argumentation Hate speech Protests Social movements Argumentação Discurso de ódio Protestos Movimentos sociais |
| Ano: | 2024 |
| País: | Portugal |
| Tipo de documento: | tese de doutoramento |
| Tipo de acesso: | acesso aberto |
| Instituição associada: | Universidade Nova de Lisboa |
| Idioma: | inglês |
| Origem: | Repositório Institucional da UNL |
| Resumo: | This dissertation is about communicative strategies that social movements can follow to confront hate speech. To achieve this purpose, three strands of theory are covered: political theory, philosophy of language, and argumentation theory. The dissertation is divided into two parts. The first part involves a descriptive study of protests and hate speech in philosophical terms. Chapter 2 argues that protests have a communicative dimension that speech act theory can make explicit. Protests are characterised as group speech acts that express opposition with connected prescriptions for change. Chapter 3 develops a philosophical analysis of hate speech used against social movements. Hate speech is defined as public expressions that discriminate and subordinate the victim by virtue of their membership in (or their representation of) a vulnerable group. It is argued that hate speech subordinates protesters by rendering them not worthy of engagement and of even consideration in the public sphere. In addition, it distorts protests as social threats. The second part of the dissertation proposes a normative analysis of communicative strategies for dealing with hate speech. Chapter 4 lays out the theoretical foundations of the proposal by studying protests and hate speech in argumentative terms. The chapter also studies argumentative strategies for dealing with hate speech that social movements could implement. After outlining the limitations of ‘arguing with hate speakers’ and ‘advocating a dialogue with restrictions’, a strategy of ‘argumentative disobedience’ is suggested as preferable for social movements. Argumentative disobedience occurs when social movements expose the harms of hate speech to bystanders in order to strengthen their position in public debate. Finally, Chapter 5 looks at how the feminist movement in Spain confronted hate speech, showing how protesters devised communicative strategies which I define in terms of ‘argumentative disobedience’. |
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