Language of Harassment - Pragmatic Perspectives on Language As Evidence

This book addresses the lack of research on harassment by offering a thorough linguistic analysis of the social phenomenon. By applying interactional pragmatics, the author sheds light on the key elements of harassment, which includes hostile and unethical communication, malicious intentions, power imbalance, and harm caused to the victim.

List of contents

Preface
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Approaches to Harassment
Chapter 1: Harassment as a Legal Problem
Chapter 2: The Defining Elements of Harassment
Chapter 3: Repeated Acts of Hostile and Unethical Communication
Chapter 4: Ill Intentions
Chapter 5: Power Imbalance and Harm Inflicted upon the Target
Conclusions
References
Index
About the Author

About the author

Victoria Guillén-Nieto is associate professor of applied linguistics at the University of Alicante.

Product details

• Authors: Victoria Guillen-Nieto, Victoria Guillén-Nieto
• Publisher: Lexington Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 15.10.2024
• EAN: 9781793619075
• ISBN: 978-1-79361-907-5
• No. of pages: 166
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative linguistics; LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / Sociolinguistics, Sociolinguistics, Historical & comparative linguistics, Historical and comparative linguistics