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“Go to hell fucking faggots, may you die!” framing the LGBT subject in online comments

Baider, Fabienne·2018·Lodz Papers in Pragmatics
DOI 10.1515/lpp-2018-0004
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Abstract This paper reports on a manual monitoring of online representations of LGBT persons in the Republic of Cyprus for the period April 2015–February 2016. The article contextualizes the prevalence of “hate speech” in online Greek Cypriot comments against LGBT individuals, and, more generally, against non-heterosexuals. Adopting a Foucauldian positionvis-à-visthe social and discursive construction of sexuality, we outline, first, the socio-historical context (Fairclough 1989, 2003) with a focus on LGBT rights in the Republic of Cyprus and the nationalistic project construing sexualities. We then examine the different levels of discursive discrimination practices, providing a snapshot of the types of “hate speech” referring to this topic typically found in such an environment. The focus is on identification of theframesused to construct LGBT identities, and their perception. We use in our title the wordsubjectas defined by post-modernists and by Butler in particular (2009 : iii): subject refers to “a socially produced ‘agent’ and ‘deliberator’ whose agency and thought is made possible by a language that precedes that ‘I’. In this sense the ‘I’ is produced through power (….)”. This paper focuses on the socially produced definition of the LGBT community in the context under study. We thus address the way in which sexuality is constructed within a compulsory and hegemonic heterosexuality and heteronormativity. We analyze our data i.e. comments focused on the LGBT community, with corpus linguistic tools (Baker et al. 2008; Brindle 2016) as well as through a qualitative examination of the identified frames. Our analysis confirms an interface between nationalism and compulsory hegemonic heteronormativity in the Republic as well as the influence of the Orthodox Church and its beliefs (Kamenou 2011a, 2011b, 2016).

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Authors
Baider, F.
Affiliations
University of Cyprus (CY)
Corresponding author
Baider, Fabienne
ORCID
Baider, Fabienne
Venue
Lodz Papers in Pragmatics
Publisher
Walter de Gruyter GmbH
Published
2018-06-26
Volume
14
Issue
1
Pages
69-92
ISSN
  • 1895-6106 (ISSN-L)
  • 1898-4436
DOI
10.1515/lpp-2018-0004
OpenAlex
W2892845898
Cited by
33
References
61
Citations by year
2026: 3 · 2025: 2 · 2024: 5 · 2023: 5 · 2022: 2 · 2021: 3 · 2020: 4 · 2019: 3 · 2018: 6
FWCI
7.46
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
closed
Locations
Lodz Papers in Pragmatics (publishedVersion)
Topics
  • Social Sciences › Gender Studies › Gender Studies in Language
  • Social Sciences › Gender Studies › Gender and Feminist Studies
  • Social Sciences › Psychology › Social Psychology › LGBTQ Health, Identity, and Policy
Keywords
LGBTQ representation, online hate speech, online comments, LGBT rights, heteronormativity, compulsory heterosexuality, nationalism, Foucauldian discourse analysis, Republic of Cyprus

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