Polarisation, the ideological positioning at extreme ends of a continuum actively combating opposite views, is a major concern these days as it spreads beyond the political sphere and permeates public...

A comprehensive approach to the study of discourse and conflict, this book explores how opposing communities construe discourse worlds which appear to reflect t…

Abstract This article examines the language of r/MensLib, a community dedicated to discussing men's issues in a profeminist manner on the content aggregation site Reddit. The language of profeminist men is relatively under-researched compared to that of antifeminist men, and so this article explores the salient topics of r/MensLib, the specific language used within the community and how r/MensLib orient themselves to feminism. The 50 most upvoted posts of all time and their associated comment threads were collected from r/MensLib, totaling a corpus of 925,153 words, and then a keyword analysis was conducted using Sketch Engine. The study found that r/MensLib explicitly support a range of LGBTQ+ identities, critique socially constructed gender roles, and discuss how they orient to feminism and a variety of other topics, such as the manosphere, sexual violence, abortion, body shaming, and pornography.

This paper explores how implicit, discriminatory messages bypass sanctions in the United Kingdom and beyond, despite their potential for significant societal harm. Drawing on linguistic and humour res...