Rhetoric and Democratic Deliberation

Culture, Communication, and Political Action in Hungary

David Boromisza-Habashi

• Publisher: Penn State University Press
• Year: 2015
• ISBN:
  9780271060750
• Topic: Languages & Linguistics
• Subtopic: Rhetoric
• Index: Languages & Linguistics

In Speaking Hatefully, David Boromisza-Habashi focuses on the use of the term "hate speech" as a window on the cultural logic of political and moral struggle in public deliberation. This empirical study of gy?löletbeszéd, or "hate speech, " in Hungary documents competing meanings of the term, the interpretive strategies used to generate those competing meanings, and the parallel moral systems that inspire political actors to question their opponents' interpretations. In contrast to most existing treatments of the subject, Boromisza-Habashi's argument does not rely on pre-existing definitions of "hate speech." Instead, he uses a combination of ethnographic and discourse analytic methods to map existing meanings and provide insight into the sociocultural life of those meanings in a troubled political environment.

Table of contents

• COVER Front
• Series Page
• Copyright Page
• Table of Contents
• Acknowledgments
• Introduction: Cultural thinking About Social Issues
• Notes to Introduction
• Chapter 1: History as Context
• Notes to Chapter 1
• Chapter 2: Diversity of Meaning
• Notes to Chapter 2
• Chapter 3: Interpretations: Tone Versus Content
• Notes to Chapter 3
• Chapter 4: Interpretations: How to Sanction “Hate Ppeech”
• Notes to Chapter 4
• Chapter 5: Rhetorical Resistance
• Notes to Chapter 5
• Chapter 6: From Cultural Knowledge to Political Action
• Notes to Chapter 6
• Appendix: Theory and Methods
• Notes to Appendix
• Notes
• References
• Index
• COVER Back