The Lexicogrammar of Hate Speech

The Case of Comments Responding to “New Zealand Mass Shooting” Online News Video

DOI

10.2991/assehr.k.210427.018How to use a DOI?

Keywords

Interpersonal meaning, lexicogrammar, MOOD, modality, online hate speech

Abstract

This study aims to investigate the hate speech appearing in the comment section of YouTube channel entitled “New Zealand Mass Shooting in the Christchurch mosque” through the lexicogrammar of SFL’s interpersonal meaning, i.e., MOOD and modality. This study employed qualitative approach. Using content analysis method, this study analysed as many as 20 comments. The result shows that declarative MOOD is the most frequently used, serving the functions of giving statements, of indirect directive, and of threat. The other MOOD types used are imperative as well as interrogative that functions as a rhetorical question to assert a proposition. In terms of modality, modulated clauses outnumber modalized clause. The use of MOOD types in expressing hate speech responding to the incident indicates that the writers position themselves as superior toward the targeted people, i.e., the victims; whereas the type of modality used shows that the writers play as an authority and deprive others’ rights.

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© 2021, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Diah Ikawati Ayuningtias
AU  - Oikurema Purwati
AU  - Pratiwi Retnaningdyah
PY  - 2021
DA  - 2021/04/28
TI  - The Lexicogrammar of Hate Speech
BT  - Proceedings of the Thirteenth Conference on Applied Linguistics (CONAPLIN 2020)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 114
EP  - 120
SN  - 2352-5398
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/assehr.k.210427.018
DO  - 10.2991/assehr.k.210427.018
ID  - Ayuningtias2021
ER  -