Vocabulary of Hatred in Social Media

The study focuses on Facebook, one of the most popular socialnetworking sites in our time, given its position digital world andthe importance verbal component it. main objective theresearch is to investigate whether a corpus utterances Italiancoming from two public Facebook groups, incitement hatred man-ifests itself through use slurs, choice which delimited byprecise criteria. presence selected words verified throughautomatic searches with tools available Facebook. Moreover, theanalysis aimed at discovering slurs always carry their deni-gratory potential, or they can also have non-denigratory use.Some possible extensions research will be defined.