501 ANNALES · Ser. hist. sociol. · 24 · 2014 · 3 original scientific article UDC 316.77:179.8:004.738.5 received: 2014-06-01 CONTEMPORARY RESEARCH ON HATE SPEECH IN NEWS WEBSITES’ COMMENTS FROM THE PERSPECTIVE OF JÜRGEN HABERMAS’S THEORY OF KNOWLEDGE Bartosz HORDECKI The Adam Mickiewicz University, Faculty of Political Science and Journalism, St. Umultowska 89A, 61-614 Poznań, Poland e-mail: Bartosz.Hordecki@amu.edu.pl ABSTRACT The main purpose of the article is to characterize and compare the cognitive attitudes presented in selected works which reflect the dominant trends in contemporary researches on “hate speech”. When determining these attitudes, the Habermasian concept of cognitive interests was used. Generally, in the text, the analysis of the term “hate speech” intertwines with discourse analysis. In most of the cited texts emancipatory threads clearly manifested themselves. Materials aimed at a cool, but in-depth understanding of the reasons for which messages defined as hate- ful occur in the public space, do not appear too often. Keywords: hate speech, socio-political concept, emancipatory interest, technical interest, practical interest. SODOBNE RAZISKAVE O SPLETNIH NOVIČARSKIH KOMENTARJIH S SOVRAŽNIM GOVOROM IZ PERSPEKTIVE TEORIJE ZNANJA JÜRGENA HABERMASA IZVLEČEK Glavni namen članka je opredeliti in primerjati kognitivna stališča, predstavljena v izbranih delih, ki odražajo prevladujoče trende na področju sodobnih raziskav o „sovražnem govoru”. Pri določanju teh stališč je bil upora- bljen Habermasov koncept kognitivnih interesov. V članku je analiza pojma »sovražni govor« kombinirana z analizo diskurza. V večini analiziranih besedil se jasno kažejo emancipatorne niti. Redka so besedila, katerih cilj je na svež in poglobljen način razumeti razloge, zaradi katerih se v javnem prostoru pojavljajo sporočila, opredeljena kot so- vražna. Ključne besede: sovražni govor, socio-političen concept, emancipatorni interes, tehnični interes, praktičen interes.