The role of sarcasm in hate speech.A multilingual perspective

The importance of the detection of aggressiveness in social media is dueto real effects of violence provoked by negative behavior online. For this reason, hatespeech online is a real problem in modern society and the necessity of control of user-generated contents has become one of the priorities for governments, social mediaplatforms and Internet companies. Current methodologies are far from solving thisproblem. Indeed, several aggressive comments are also disguised as sarcastic. In thisperspective, this research proposal wants to investigate the role played by creativelinguistic devices, especially sarcasm, in hate speech in multilingual context.