More and more women are targeted by hate speech and the increasing use of social media has contributed to growing occurrences of gender-based hate speech. The Council of Europe (COE) has started to pay attention to this issue by adopting legal actions and promoting awareness-raising initiatives to combat it. In addition to different campaign materials (brochures, leaflets, websites, etc.), in 2016 the COE issued a revised edition of the manual “Bookmarks. A manual for combating hate speech online through human rights education”. Following in the tradition of Translation Studies (Venuti 2000; Bassnett 2002; Cronin 2006) and Multimodal Discourse Analysis (Kress/van Leeuwen 1996; Jewitt 2014, 2016), this study analyses the English and Italian versions of said manual focusing on the activites devoted to gender-based hate speech. In particular, the investigation looks at how specialized discourses – institutional, political and legal – are “translated” into a different text-type and how words, images, colours and layout are produced and re-produced for educational purposes.
The Council of Europe Manual to Fight Gender-based Hate Speech: Translating and (Re)Mediating Institutional, Political and Legal Discourses / Zollo, SOLE ALBA. - 281:(2021), pp. 159-181.
The Council of Europe Manual to Fight Gender-based Hate Speech: Translating and (Re)Mediating Institutional, Political and Legal Discourses
sole alba zollo
2021
Abstract
More and more women are targeted by hate speech and the increasing use of social media has contributed to growing occurrences of gender-based hate speech. The Council of Europe (COE) has started to pay attention to this issue by adopting legal actions and promoting awareness-raising initiatives to combat it. In addition to different campaign materials (brochures, leaflets, websites, etc.), in 2016 the COE issued a revised edition of the manual “Bookmarks. A manual for combating hate speech online through human rights education”. Following in the tradition of Translation Studies (Venuti 2000; Bassnett 2002; Cronin 2006) and Multimodal Discourse Analysis (Kress/van Leeuwen 1996; Jewitt 2014, 2016), this study analyses the English and Italian versions of said manual focusing on the activites devoted to gender-based hate speech. In particular, the investigation looks at how specialized discourses – institutional, political and legal – are “translated” into a different text-type and how words, images, colours and layout are produced and re-produced for educational purposes.I documenti in IRIS sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.
