An analysis of self-other representations in the incelosphere: Between online misogyny and self-contempt

IF 2.4 1区 文学 Q1 COMMUNICATION
Giuseppina Scotto di Carlo
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The present study intends to contribute to the analysis of digital discursive practices of hate speech expressed throughout the so-called ‘Manosphere’, a group of online communities in which men express their considerations about masculinity. Through qualitative and quantitative analysis, it investigates how one of the main Manosphere groups, the Incels, creates its in-group/out-group discourse through its representations of women and of themselves. Driven by Critical Discourse Studies and studies on the ideological function of metaphors, the first part of the analysis reveals a conflation of apparently sarcastic metaphors, dark humour, and misogyny used to talk about women, while the second section of the study focuses on the peculiar self-representations of the men who participate in the forum, which breach Van Dijk’s ‘us vs them’ identity square pattern: rather than emphasising the positive traits of the in-group, incels describe themselves through self-derogative nominations and predications that give way to a spiral of self-pitying and self-contempt, which might be used to create fraternal bonds within the community.
乱伦圈中自我其他表征的分析:在网络厌女症和自我蔑视之间
本研究旨在有助于分析在所谓的“Manosphere”中表达的仇恨言论的数字话语实践,这是一组在线社区,男性在其中表达他们对男性气概的考虑。通过定性和定量分析,它调查了一个主要的庄园团体,乱伦,是如何通过其对女性和自身的表征来创造其群内/群外话语的。在批判性话语研究和隐喻意识形态功能研究的推动下,分析的第一部分揭示了用于谈论女性的明显讽刺性隐喻、黑色幽默和厌女症的融合,而研究的第二部分则关注参与论坛的男性特有的自己表征,这打破了范迪克的“我们与他们”身份广场模式:乱伦并没有强调群体中的积极特征,而是通过自我贬损的提名和预测来描述自己,这些提名和预测让位于自怜和自我蔑视的螺旋,这可能被用来在社区内建立兄弟般的纽带。
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期刊介绍: Discourse & Society is a multidisciplinary peer-reviewed journal whose major aim is to publish outstanding research at the boundaries of discourse analysis and the social sciences. It focuses on explicit theory formation and analysis of the relationships between the structures of text, talk, language use, verbal interaction or communication, on the one hand, and societal, political or cultural micro- and macrostructures and cognitive social representations, on the other hand. That is, D&S studies society through discourse and discourse through an analysis of its socio-political and cultural functions or implications. Its contributions are based on advanced theory formation and methodologies of several disciplines in the humanities and social sciences.
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