Journal of Language Aggression and Conflict

Editors
ORCID logoPilar Garcés-Conejos Blitvich | University of North Carolina at Charlotte, USA | jlac.editors at gmail.com
ORCID logoMaria Sifianou | National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece
Editorial Assistant
Abby Mueller Dobs | Greensboro College, USA

The goal of the journal is to create a unique outlet for cutting edge research, and has a format, content and structure that reflect the rapidly growing interest in studies that focus on the language of aggression and conflict. The special focus on language use derives from the assumption that although aggression and conflict may manifest themselves through other means, they are fundamentally realized through language. Therefore, a thorough understanding of conflict and aggression needs to be anchored in an analysis of discourse.

The journal intends to be a forum for researchers who are interested in new tools and methods to investigate and better understand the language of aggression and conflict. Thus, JLAC is multidisciplinary in nature and encourages, supports and facilitates interaction and scholarly debate among researchers representing different fields including, but not limited to, linguistics, communication, psychology, anthropology, bi- and multilingualism, business management, second language acquisition, gender studies.

JLAC publishes its articles Online First.

Social media presence: www.facebook.com/jlac14

ISSN: 2213-1272 | E-ISSN: 2213-1280
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https://doi.org/10.1075/jlac
Latest articles

22 October 2024

  • Conventionalized impoliteness formulae in third-party assessments : Uniting offenders against (national) others
    Angeliki Alvanoudi
  • 17 October 2024

  • Excluding the migrant Other via resistance and inclusion : The case of the Greek anti-racist short film Jafar
    Rania Karachaliou
  • 1 October 2024

  • Anti-genderism in the Spanish radical right’s propaganda discourses : Vox’s Parental Pin against “gender ideology”
    Sara Rebollo-Bueno
  • 27 September 2024

  • “I’ll throw acid on your pretty little face […], so wrote a genteel fanatic antifeminist” : The discursive management of male gender‑driven aggression by eminent Greek female autobiographers of the 19th and early and mid‑20th century
    Ourania Hatzidaki
  • 3 September 2024

  • A cyberterrorist behind the keyboard : An automated text analysis for psycholinguistic profiling and threat assessment
    Awni Etaywe , Kate Macfarlane Mamoun Alazab
  • 27 August 2024

  • Contesting spaces : An examination of the prepositional phrases v/na Ukraine and iz/s Ukraine in Russian X discourse
    Frances Junnier Galina Shleykina
  • Cornelia Ilie (ed). 2024. Manufacturing Dissent: Manipulation and Counter-manipulation in Times of Crisis
    Reviewed by Liliana Hoinărescu
  • 13 August 2024

  • Microaggressions and impoliteness at the crossroads : EU academics in the UK facing hostility in the Brexit age
    Caterina Guardamagna , Jessica Hampton , Mariana Roccia Djordje Sredanovic
  • 5 August 2024

  • The shadow drama : Metaphor, affect, and discursive polarization in Norwegian extreme-right representations
    Søren Mosgaard Andreasen
  • Hate, prejudice and conspiracy theories : The reality from the ideological perspective of Brazilian imageboard users
    Adriano Beringuy Leandro Guimarães Marques Alvim
  • 11 July 2024

  • “We are completely stunned” : Corrective facework in hosts’ responses to Airbnb reviews with negative valence
    Patricia Díaz-Muñoz Carmen Maíz-Arévalo
  • (Re)contextualizing the ‘anti-woke’ discourse : Attitudes towards gender-inclusive language in English and French on X (formerly Twitter)
    Paige Johnson
  • Hegemonic femininity, femonationalism and the far-right : Boris Johnson’s textual representation of the burka and his rise to power in the UK
    Camila Montiel-McCann
  • 24 June 2024

  • The quick termination of verbal conflicts expressed through disagreement : Three patterns of conflict minimization during computer science project meetings
    Ole Pütz Hafsa Hassan
  • 7 June 2024

  • Justifying the accusation : A descriptive comparative analysis of ordinary speakers’ accusations of trolling and bad faith
    Diane Liberatore | JLAC 12:1 (2024) pp. 17–40
  • Aggression and disagreement in public communication : Convincing third parties through implicit strategies
    Edoardo Lombardi Vallauri | JLAC 12:1 (2024) pp. 41–65
  • The evidential dimension of implicitly conveyed disagreement in political debates
    Viviana Masia | JLAC 12:1 (2024) pp. 66–88
  • “So I know how to do this” : The prototypical argumentative pattern in U.S.A. presidential debates
    Menno H. Reijven | JLAC 12:1 (2024) p. 89
  • Pragmatic perspectives on disagreement
    Jennifer Schumann Steve Oswald | JLAC 12:1 (2024) pp. 1–16
  • 6 June 2024

  • The language of sexual violence and impropriety : A cross-cultural and cross-linguistic study
    Rachelle Vessey
  • 3 June 2024

  • Gendering the language of genocide : Linguistic violence against women in Nazi concentration camps
    Laura Miñano Mañero
  • 13 May 2024

  • ‘You are not empowered, you have neither character nor pride’ : Assessing aggressive language against Spanish female politicians in high-profile positions
    Maria Milagros Del Saz Rubio
  • 30 April 2024

  • When dissatisfactory experiences turn into conflict : A contrastive study of negative Spanish product and experience-based reviews on Trustpilot
    María de la O Hernández López
  • 29 April 2024

  • Stuck between group and transgression : An analysis of the strategic utilization of stance to navigate in-group condemnations
    Elie Friedman
  • 23 April 2024

  • Identities in conflict : Latinos in Spain
    Pilar Garcés-Conejos Blitvich Patricia Bou Franch
  • 19 April 2024

  • Degrees of disagreement and reliability of information sources in pro- and anti-vaccination comments on Facebook
    Dorota Kotwica Marta Albelda Marco
  • Attacking epistemic personhood on Twitter/X : A Spanish corpus-based examination
    Manuel Padilla Cruz
  • 18 April 2024

  • Exploiting metaphor in disagreement
    Lotte van Poppel Roosmaryn Pilgram | JLAC 12:1 (2024) pp. 111–138
  • 16 April 2024

  • Examining the discursive construction of Chinese grassroots cybernationalism : A case study on the permanent residence law for foreigners
    Jiapei Gu Salomi Boukala
  • Polarisation in Venezuelan presidential tweets : Metaphors and social actor representations as divisive tools
    Silvia Peterssen
  • The virtue and shades of aggressive humour in press advertising
    Anna Stwora
  • 5 March 2024

  • Is this War? Naming the Russia-Ukraine dispute in three international news providers
    Ruth Breeze María Fernanda Novoa-Jaso
  • 22 December 2023

  • “A history lesson, perhaps, for my novice counterpart” : The analysis of (im)politeness in political Twitter (X)
    Seyed Mohammadreza Mortazavi , Hamed Zandi Mohammad Makki | JLAC 12:2 (2024) pp. 289–317
  • “You look like my 14-year-old daughter” : A corpus-based study of sexist language in everyday sexism Twitter stories
    Wanwen Wang Jonathan Ngai
  • 11 December 2023

  • A multimodal analysis of (de)legitimation through argumentation in extremist discourse: The case of Dabiq
    Sahar Rasoulikolamaki , Surinderpal Kaur Neda Salahshour | JLAC 12:2 (2024) pp. 263–288
  • 6 December 2023

  • Dimitris Serafis . 2023. Authoritarianism on the Front Page: Multimodal discourse and argumentation in times of multiple crises in Greece
    Reviewed by Justin Eckstein | JLAC 12:2 (2024) pp. 318–322
  • 4 December 2023

  • “The denigration of Korean men’s genitals” : Precision grip gestures and the multimodal construction of “taking offence” in media discourse surrounding anti-feminism in South Korea
    Lucien Brown | JLAC 12:2 (2024) pp. 234–262
  • 9 November 2023

  • Intersectionality and the gendered discussion around Muslim Canadian politicians on Twitter
    Ahmed Al-Rawi , Mina Einifar Wendy Chun | JLAC 12:2 (2024) pp. 207–233
  • 19 June 2023

  • The expression of hate speech against Afro-descendant, Roma, and LGBTQ+ communities in YouTube comments
    Paula Carvalho , Danielle Caled , Cláudia Silva , Fernando Batista Ricardo Ribeiro | JLAC 12:2 (2024) pp. 171–206
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    Editorial Board
    ORCID logoArgiris Archakis | University of Patras, Greece
    ORCID logoPatricia Bou-Franch | University of Valencia, Spain
    ORCID logoDiana Boxer | University of Florida, USA
    ORCID logoRuth Breeze | University of Navarra, Spain
    ORCID logoCostas Canakis | University of the Aegean, Greece
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    ORCID logoTimothy Jay | Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts, USA
    ORCID logoDániel Z. Kádár | Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Hungary
    ORCID logoZohar Kampf | The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel
    Nuria Lorenzo-Dus | Swansea University, UK
    ORCID logoMohammad Makki | University of Wollongong, Australia
    ORCID logoAndreas Musolff | University of East Anglia, UK
    Neal R. Norrick | Saarland University, Germany
    ORCID logoJim O'Driscoll | University of Huddersfield, UK
    ORCID logoYongping Ran | Guangdong University of Foreign Studies, China
    ORCID logoElena Semino | Lancaster University, UK
    ORCID logoMaria Grazia Sindoni | University of Messina, Italy
    ORCID logoKaren Tracy | University of Colorado at Boulder, USA
    ORCID logoVilly Tsakona | National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece
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    Subjects

    Communication Studies

    Communication Studies

    Main BIC Subject

    CFG: Semantics, Pragmatics, Discourse Analysis

    Main BISAC Subject

    LAN009000: LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / General