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Garcés-Conejos Blitvich, Pilar and Patricia Bou-Franch. 2014. Gender ideology and social identity processes in online language aggression against women. Journal of Language Aggression and Conflict 2 (2) : 226–248.
Publication type
Article in journal
Publication language
English
Place, Publisher
John Benjamins
Journal DOI
10.1075/jlac

Annotation

This paper examines language aggression against women in public online deliberation regarding crimes of violence against women. To do so, it draws upon a corpus of 460 unsolicited digital comments sent in response to four public service advertisements against women abuse posted on YouTube. This analysis reveals that three patriarchal strategies of abuse — namely, minimize the abuse, deny its existence, and blame women — are enacted in the online discourse under scrutiny and shows how, at the micro-level of interaction, these strategies relate to social identity and gender ideology through complex processes of positive in-group description and negative out-group presentation. It is also argued that despite the few comments that explicitly support abuse, this situation changes at implicit, indirect levels of discourse.