Homophobic hate speech in Italian tweets: contextual cues of offensiveness

This study on homophobic hate speech in Italian tweets, in which we focus on the contextual cues that differentiate lexicalisations of the concept of HOMOSEXUAL MAN in Italian (e.g.: gay, omosessuale, frocio, checca etc.), is part of the larger ALIHAS-project. ALIHAS is the acronym of 'A Linguistic Investigation of HAte Speech: How to identify it and how to avoid it', was seed-funded by Una Europa, and led by Silvio Cruschina (Helsingin Yliopisto) and Chiara Gianollo (Università di Bologna).