Federico Faloppa

Full Professor of Language and Discrimination in the Department of Languages ​​and Cultures at the University of Reading (Great Britain), his research for twenty-five years has focused on ethnic stereotypes, the linguistic construction of “diversity”, multilingualism in plural societies, the representation of migration in public discourse, the linguistic landscape of borders, the relationship between language and power, and hate speech. In this field, he has published numerous articles and reports, as well as several monographs, including Parole contro. The representation of diversity in the Italian language and dialects (2004), Racialists in words (to say nothing of the facts) (2011), Brief lessons on language (2019), #Odio. A manual of resistance to the violence of words (2020), Whitening an Ethiopian. The construction of a racist imaginary (2022), The pharmacy of language. Words that hurt, words that heal (2022), The deaths of others (with Marco Aime, 2025). Co-founder of the National Network for the Countering of Hate Speech and Phenomena, he collaborates with NGOs and national and international institutions, including the Council of Europe, for which he serves as a consultant on preventing and combating hate speech.

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