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Toxic Language in East Asia: Linguistic Analysis of Aggression and Conflict

Toxic Language in East Asia: Linguistic Analysis of Aggression and Conflict

Brown, Lucien
Chen, XI

Hardcover

Series: Routledge Contemporary Asia

Linguistics

PREORDER - Expected ship date October 23, 2026

ISBN10: 1041096461
ISBN13: 9781041096467
Publisher: Routledge
Published: Oct 23 2026
Pages: 266
Language: English

This book explores examples of 'toxic language', the linguistic manifestations of societal conflicts and aggressions, that have arisen in Asian contexts.

By highlighting toxic language, a panoramic concept borrowed from computational linguistics, the book assesses hate speech, harassment, discrimination, cyberbullying, sarcasm, irony and other kinds of offensive, impolite and harmful language that targets individuals, groups and communities based on their gender, race and other factors. With extensive data collected from local and global social media platforms, such as YouTube, Twitter, and Weibo, and offline settings, including political debates, video bullet comments, and song lyrics, this book leverages pragmatics and sociolinguistics to analyze the specific constructions of toxic language, its culture-specific development, and its dynamics in relation to contemporary Asian societies.

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