Valeria Fabretti: The talk refers to intersectionality as a conceptual tool to better investigate religiously motivated hate speech and its social effects. Bernd Kortmann: The overall spirit of this talk is to showcase concepts, theories, methods and approaches which linguistics provides for detecting and classifying hate speech and related types of speech, with a special focus on religion-related hate speech.

Technological innovation and body enhancement seem to challenge the process of polarization that has been traditionally associated with corporeality, favouring forms of hybridization that entail relevant consequences in terms of signification, as well as regards the ethical dimension. The seminar deals with such issues by combining a thorough literature review with the analysis of relevant case studies.