An Impossible Dialogue! Nominal Utterances and Populist Rhetoric in an Italian Twitter Corpus of Hate Speech against Immigrants

Gloria Comandini, Viviana Patti


Abstract
The paper proposes an investigation on the role of populist themes and rhetoric in an Italian Twitter corpus of hate speech against immigrants. The corpus had been annotated with four new layers of analysis: Nominal Utterances, that can be seen as consistent with populist rhetoric; In-out-group rhetoric, a very common populist strategy to polarize public opinion; Slogan-like nominal utterances, that may convey the call for severe illiberal policies against immigrants; News, to recognize the role of newspapers (headlines or reference to articles) in the Twitter political discourse on immigration featured by hate speech.
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W19-3518
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Proceedings of the Third Workshop on Abusive Language Online
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August
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2019
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Florence, Italy
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Sarah T. Roberts, Joel Tetreault, Vinodkumar Prabhakaran, Zeerak Waseem
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ALW
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Association for Computational Linguistics
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163–171
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https://aclanthology.org/W19-3518
DOI:
10.18653/v1/W19-3518
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Gloria Comandini and Viviana Patti. 2019. An Impossible Dialogue! Nominal Utterances and Populist Rhetoric in an Italian Twitter Corpus of Hate Speech against Immigrants. In Proceedings of the Third Workshop on Abusive Language Online, pages 163–171, Florence, Italy. Association for Computational Linguistics.
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An Impossible Dialogue! Nominal Utterances and Populist Rhetoric in an Italian Twitter Corpus of Hate Speech against Immigrants (Comandini & Patti, ALW 2019)
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