Review of Speaking hatefully: Culture, communication, and political action in Hungary

Abstract

This review discusses the major contributions of David Boromisza-Habashi’s (2013) book, Speaking hatefully: Culture, communication, and political action in Hungary to the study of hate speech, public discourse, and ways in which culture makes both meaningful. In particular, this review describes how Boromisza-Habashi’s book makes novel claims about a commonly employed communication practice, hate speech, by treating the Hungarian political context as a cultural context and the political discourse that populates this context as cultural discourse. Although the book offers many contributions to diverse interests and literatures, this review names the author’s discussion of context, key symbol analysis, and offer of counsel as the book’s most compelling contributions. Additionally, this review offers a brief critique of the book, calling for more details about the “authoring unity” solution proposed to unify opposing parties in the hate speech debates. Ultimately, this review highlights the exceptional quality of the book and its potential utility for EC and public discourse scholars.

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