AJDAČIĆ DEJAN 2023

AJDAČIĆ DEJAN – a professor, a Ph.D., Institute of Сlassical Philology and Slavic Studies, Philological Faculty (Gdańsk, Poland).

According to the author, the differences within personal and group conflicts are considered as the starting point of the analysis of the specific signs of hate speech: on the one hand, these are the speech features of the aggressor who aims to hide his violence or justify it through threats or motivations based on the principles of justice, on the other hand, – the speech of a victim whose hostile attitude is the result of genuine suffering.

Analysis of sources. Our examples of hate speech have been drawn from the internet sources. Academic literature used in this text includes Victor Klemperer’s seminal book The Language of the Third Reich. Notes of a Philologist (1947), as well as culturally and ethnolinguistically oriented linguistic studies.

The purpose and task of the article is to analyze the language of hostility in the names and expressions that refer to the connection with Nazism, using the examples of the armed conflicts of the Slavs. In particular, the principles of condemning Nazism and Nazis after the Second World War are outlined, but the differences in the attitude to totalitarian ideology, respectively in the Eastern and Western blocs, according to which the communist parties of the times of the existence of socialism deliberately excluded communism from their ideologies, leading to mass crimes, are indicated. We have analyzed vocabulary related to Nazism that was used and is used in relation to the enemies in the military conflicts of the Slavs: Croats and Serbs in the mid-1990s, Ukrainians and Russians – from 2022. Examples of such vocabulary from Russian and Ukrainian, Serbian and Croatian languages are given in the study: Banderites, denazification, ruscism, Putler, Chetniks, Ustaše. Hatred caused by ideological postulates becomes part of political and military actions, manifests itself in various forms of hate speech. Linguistic methods are mentioned in the article, which, according to the author, can be useful in the application of interdisciplinary approaches to the consideration of this topic.

Keywords: Nazism, insults, hate speech, Nazis, rascists, Bandera, Chetniks, Ustaše, linguistic approaches.

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Translated from Serbian by Myroslava Karatsuba