Abstract

The purpose of this study is to identify the cognitive linguistic meaning of sexist hate speech. Hate speech is speech that is discriminatory, hateful, or incites discrimination, hostility, or violence against a person or group of people. Hateful expressions referring to women and men have increased rapidly since 2012, when problems related to communities such as Daily Best, Warmad, and Megalia emerged, and gender hateful expressions such as kimchi girl, miso girl, mamchung, hannamchung, and gazer have increased. This phenomenon is explained by the emotion cognition model and the issue interest cycle model, and hate speech occurs under the premise of both models. The results showed that the metaphor and metonymy mechanisms were applied. We found that metaphorical words were mainly compared to animals or objects, and metonymy and metaphor were combined or re-metaphorized. Metaphorical words were characterized by the substitution of the whole for the part, as opposed to metonymy, in which the part takes the place of the whole, or the whole takes the place of the part. The intention of the words was to demean both men and women by referring to their behavior in certain situations or by using certain body parts.

Full Text
Published version (Free)

Talk to us

Join us for a 30 min session where you can share your feedback and ask us any queries you have

Schedule a call