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The good side of social media is well known: creativity, fun and self-expression. But in our talk, based on our new book Words That Wound: Exploring Online Offensive Language, we focus on the other side: the everyday insults that people often come across online. We explore this through different levels of language analysis to better understand how offence works in digital spaces.
Dr Vahid Parvaresh [https://www.aru.ac.uk/people/vahid-parvaresh] is Associate Professor of Linguistics at Anglia Ruskin University. His research focuses on language aggression, hate speech and impoliteness.
Dr Tahmineh Tayebi [https://research.aston.ac.uk/en/persons/dr-tahmineh-tayebi/] is a Senior Lecturer in Forensic Linguistics at Aston University. Her research interests lie at the intersection of pragmatics, (im)politeness theory, corpus linguistics and forensic linguistics.
