Introduction Natalia Knoblock; 1. Animacy and countability of slurs: shifting grammatical categories Natalia Knoblock; 2. Language aggression in English slang: the case of the -o suffix Elisa Mattiello; 3. Adj+ie/y nominalisations in contemporary English: from diminution to pejoration Elizaveta Tarasova and José A. Sánchez Fajardo; 4. Grammatical gender and offensiveness in modern Greek slang vocabulary Katerina Christopoulou, George J. Xydopoulos and Anastasios Tsangalidis; 5. Unseen gender: Misgendering of transgender individuals in Czech JonᚠThál and Irene Elmerot; 6. The neutering neuter - grammatical gender in German and its discursive use in dehumanisation Miriam Lind and Damaris Nübling; 7. Neutering unpopular politicians: the neuter gender and 'it' as a dehumanizing grammatical metaphor Natalia Knoblock and Yaroslava Sazonova; 8. The power of a pronoun Linda Flores Ohlson; 9. Is play on words fair play or dirty play: on ill-meaning use of morphological blending Natalia Beliaeva; 10. Expressive German adjective and noun compounds in aggressive discourse: Morphopragmatic and sociolinguistic evidence from Austrian corpora Katharina Korecky-Kröll and Wolfgang U. Dressler; 11. "Kill the invaders": imperative verbs and their grammatical patients in Tarrant's The Great Replacement Robert Bianchi; 12. 'I am no racist but...'. A corpus-based analysis of xenophobic hate speech constructions in danish and German social media discourse Klaus Geyer, Eckhard Bick and Andrea Kleene; 13. Homophobic space-times: Lexicogrammatical and discourse-semantic aspects of the softscapes of hate David Peterson.