Hate Speech, incitamento all’odio, incitación al odio: EU Parallel Corpora, Legal Discourse, Metadiscourse and Translation

According to Sandrelli (2019, p. 111), “the multilingual co-drafting process produces equally authentic language versions of the same document in all EU official languages. However, what actually happens practice is that legislation drafted one (English, most cases) and then translated into other ones”. Starting from this assumption, aim paper investigate a series hate speech-related documents order explore certain features discourse discourse-related phraseology, metadiscourse translation issues English, Italian Spanish texts. The quantitative qualitative analysis will look at use peculiar constructions three languages relation, among features, hateful rhetoric, discrimination, violent behaviour, intolerance, harassment, gender inequalities, extremism racism. Additionally, (Hyland, 2019 [2005]) be scrutinised ascertain whether extent they function as rhetorical markers conferring persuasive rather than merely an informative prescriptive character texts under consideration. parallel corpora include which date back 2021. They appear have their underlying disseminating circulating counteractions, good practices procedures controversial cultural contexts environments, especially those associated with such divisive matters safeguarding human rights dignity diverse religious, ethnic social groups.