Words That Wound: Exploring Online Offensive Language
About this event
The good side of social media is well known: creativity, fun and self-expression. But in our talk, based on our new book "Words That Wound: Exploring Online Offensive Language", we focus on the other side: the everyday insults that people often come across online. We explore this through different levels of language analysis to better understand how offence works in digital spaces.
About our speakers
Dr Vahid Parvaresh Dr. Vahid Parvaresh is Associate Professor of Linguistics at ARU. His research focuses on language aggression, hate speech and impoliteness.
Dr Tahmineh Tayebi is a Senior Lecturer in Forensic Linguistics at Aston University, UK. Her research interests lie at the intersection of pragmatics, (im)politeness theory, corpus linguistics and forensic linguistics.
Event presented as part of the Cambridge Festival.