Incels are an extremist online community of men who believe in an ideology rooted in misogyny, racism, the glorification of violence, and dehumanization. In their online forums, they use an extensive, evolving cryptolect - a set of ingroup terms that have meaning within the group, reflect the ideology, demonstrate membership in the community, and are difficult for outsiders to understand. This paper presents a lexicon with terms and definitions for common incel root words, prefixes, and affixes. The lexicon is text-based for use in automated analysis and is derived via a Qualitative Content Analysis of the most frequent incel words, their structure, and their meaning on five of the most active incel communities from 2016 to 2023. This lexicon will support future work examining radicalization and deradicalization/disengagement within the community.
翻译:incel(非自愿独身者)是一个秉持厌女、种族主义、美化暴力及去人性化意识形态的极端主义男性在线社群。在其论坛中,他们使用一套不断演化的加密语言——即指代群体内部特定含义、反映其意识形态、彰显社群成员身份且令外人难以理解的行话术语。本文提出一份包含常见incel词根、前缀与后缀术语及其定义的词汇表。该词汇表基于文本形式设计,适用于自动化分析,并通过质性内容分析法对2016年至2023年间五个最活跃incel社群中最常用词汇的结构与含义进行推导而得出。本词汇表将为未来研究该社群内部的激进化和去激进/脱离现象提供支持。