Types of hate speech in German and their prosodic characteristics

Jana Neitsch; Oliver Niebuhr

Types of hate speech in German and their prosodic characteristics

Jana Neitsch^*
, Oliver Niebuhr

^*Corresponding author for this work

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Abstract

The present pilot study investigates spoken hate-speech items, produced by a professional German speaker after actual Twitter and Facebook posts and reflecting characteristic morpho-syntactic features of German hate speech. Acoustic-prosodic signal analyses reveal a considerable featurespecific variation in the production of hate speech. Thus, at least at the level of phonetics and spoken hate speech, no evidence was found that hate speech is a separate communicative function conveyed by a set of uniformly realized prosodic characteristics.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Proceedings 1st International Seminar on the Foundations of Speech : Breathing, Pausing, and the Voice
Publisher	Syddansk Universitet
Publication date	2. Dec 2019
Pages	85-87
Publication status	Published - 2. Dec 2019
Event	1st International Seminar on the Foundations of Speech: Pausing, Breathing and Voice - University of Southern Denmark - Campus Sønderborg, Sønderbrog, Denmark Duration: 1. Dec 2019 → 3. Dec 2019

Seminar

Seminar	1st International Seminar on the Foundations of Speech
Location	University of Southern Denmark - Campus Sønderborg
Country/Territory	Denmark
City	Sønderbrog
Period	01/12/2019 → 03/12/2019

Keywords

hate speech
prosody
irony
holocaust
twitter
German

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XPEROHS: Towards Balance and Boundaries in Public Discourse: Expressing and Perceiving Online Hate Speech
Neitsch, J. (Project participant), Niebuhr, O. (PI) & Geyer, K. (Project manager)
01/04/2019 → …
Project: Private Foundations

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