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This volume collects a selection of papers concerning the history of linguistics spanning the centuries from the 17th to the 20th. These contributions were presented and debated at ICHoLS XV (Milan, 23 – 27 August 2021). The essays focus on various contexts across the modern and contemporary ages in Europe, Asia, and the United States. This collection offers an accurate exploration of linguistic topics and metalinguistic traditions across diverse historical and geographical settings.

It is the editors' Introduction to the vol. Insights into the History of Linguistics. Selected Papers from ICHoLS XV ((Milan, 23 – 27 August 2021)

The lexicon of natural languages includes both connoted and neutral terms. Connoted terms express the speaker’s attitude towards the referent of the term. By contrast, neutral terms do not express any such attitude. Connotation can be positive or negative. Hate speech (HS) is understood as any message that expresses contempt or hatred towards an individual or a target group. Hence, a quite natural hypothesis would be that HS contains a high number of negatively connoted terms. Our work aims at verifying this hypothesis. To do this, we use the model developed by Montefinese et al. (2014), which classifies the affective connotation of 1121 Italian words based on three different parameters: valence, arousal, and dominance. We calculated the mean value of these three dimensions in an already annotated Italian HS corpus (HaSpeeDe 2020). The result is quite unexpected as there seems not to exist any meaningful correlation between HS and negatively connoted terms. Not only negatively connoted terms are not necessary to classify a message as HS, but they are not sufficient either. Consequently, HS detection software must take other dimensions into account.

In questo contributo vengono presentate alcune riflessioni linguistiche di Philipp Wegener, contenute in "Exposition und Mitteilung" del 1911. In questo breve saggio, Wegener si avvale di esempi tratti da materiale presumibilmente utilizzato in ambito didattico per illustrare, in modo sintetico, alcune delle tematiche che aveva già affrontato e approfondito nel suo contributo più noto e significativo, le "Untersuchungen über die Grundfragen des Sprachlebens (1885)". In particolare si sofferma sulla nozione di "Exposition".