Publications

Publication details [#14604]

Billig, Michael. 2001. Humour and hatred: the racist jokes of the Ku Klux Klan. Discourse & Society 12 (3) : 267–289.
Publication type
Article in journal
Publication language
English
Place, Publisher
SAGE Publications
ISBN
0957-9265

Annotation

On the relationship between humour and hatred in three racist websites, with a focus on the presentational metadiscourse of the sites' disclaimers. Illustrating that the racist KKK humor is all but 'just' a joke, the meta-discourse also indicates that this type of dehumanizing language is perceived as a matter of enjoyment.