Discours anti-immigration sur Twitter : discours sur l’Autre et discours de haine

Abstract

Encouraged by the accessibility of the media and social networks, reinforced by the variable contours of freedom of expression in various national legislations, hate speech impregnates daily communications. Openly displayed, or implicitly inferable from an apparent information, it opens the gap which, insensibly, separates ego and alter. Its faces are multiple, yet its effect remains the same everywhere: elites, media and citizens incessantly repeat and trivialize "small sentences" which insidiously propagate the hate or the rejection of others by caricaturing and depersonalizing them. Through the study of a corpus of tweets, we propose to analyze this linguistic avatar of what has been called "neo-racism" or "elegant racism", and the processes of cognitive fixation operated by hashtagging.