Landwhales, femoids and sub-humans

IF 0.9 Q2 LINGUISTICS

Metaphor and the Social World Pub Date : 2023-05-26 DOI:10.1075/msw.23005.bog

Ksenija Bogetić, Frazer Heritage, Veronika Koller, M. McGlashan

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Abstract

Incels, or involuntary celibates, are a community of typically heterosexual young men who wish to, but do not, have sexual and romantic relationships with women. As a community, they have previously been characterised by their hatred for women and violent acts against members of society who they believe prevent them from having relations with women. In this paper, we highlight the pervasiveness of metaphor in incel communication, so far unaddressed in the budding studies of incel language. Specifically, using a sample of circa 22,500 words from the banned incel Reddit forum r/Braincels, we focus on how members of this community use metaphoric expressions to dehumanise gendered social actors, both as individuals and as groups. We discuss our findings against the backdrop of metaphor approaches to language, gender, and sexuality, and the relevance of dehumanising metaphorical rhetoric for online misogynist groups.

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陆鲸、类动物和亚人类

乱伦，或非自愿独身者，是一个典型的异性恋年轻男性群体，他们希望但不希望与女性发生性关系和浪漫关系。作为一个社区，他们以前的特点是对妇女的仇恨，以及对他们认为阻止他们与妇女发生关系的社会成员的暴力行为。在这篇文章中，我们强调了隐喻在incel交际中的普遍性，而到目前为止，在incel语言的萌芽研究中还没有得到解决。具体来说，我们使用了来自被禁止的incel Reddit论坛r/Braincels的约22500个单词的样本，重点研究了这个社区的成员如何使用隐喻表达来非人化性别社会行为者，无论是作为个人还是作为群体。我们在语言、性别和性的隐喻方法的背景下讨论了我们的发现，以及非人性化隐喻修辞对网络厌女群体的相关性。

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Metaphor and the Social World LINGUISTICS-

CiteScore

2.20

自引率

11.10%

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期刊介绍： The journal Metaphor and the Social World aims to provide a forum for researchers to share with each other, and with potential research users, work that explores aspects of metaphor and the social world. The term “social world” signals the importance given to context (of metaphor use), to connections (e.g. across social, cognitive and discourse dimensions of metaphor use), and to communication (between individuals or across social groups). The journal is not restricted to a single disciplinary or theoretical framework but welcomes papers based in a range of theoretical approaches to metaphor, including discourse and cognitive linguistic approaches, provided that the theory adequately supports the empirical work. Metaphor may be dealt with as either a matter of language or of thought, or of both; what matters is that consideration is given to the social and discourse contexts in which metaphor is found. Furthermore, “metaphor” is broadly interpreted and articles are welcomed on metonymy and other types of figurative language. A further aim is to encourage the development of high-quality research methodology using metaphor as an investigative tool, and for investigating the nature of metaphor use, for example multi-modal discourse analytic or corpus linguistic approaches to metaphor data. The journal publishes various types of articles, including reports of empirical studies, key articles accompanied by short responses, reviews and meta-analyses with commentaries. The Forum section publishes short responses to papers or current issues.