Investigating violence in language: An introduction / Daniel Silva -- The language of violence: Conflict, policing, frontiers. The invention of violence / Renzo Taddei -- Voice and silence in the suburbs of São Paulo: State, community and the meanings of violence / Ana Paula Galdeano -- From the side of the road to the borders of the page: mapping the legibility of people and words at the margins / Ruth Goldstein -- The violence of language: Hate speech, speech act, injuries. The circulation of violence in discourse / Daniel Silva -- Racist speech as a linguistic discriminatory practice in Brazil: between the speech act's reference and effects / Karla Cristina dos Santos Allen -- Free speech, hate speech, and hate beards: Language ideologies of Dutch populism / Michiel Leezenberg -- The intersections of violence, bodies and languages: Epistemology, narrative, corporealities. On languages, bodies and epistemic violence / Joana Plaza Pinto -- Queering violence and narrative: Voices from a marginalized community / Elizabeth Sara Lewis and Liliana Cabral Bastos -- Discursive constructions of deviance in the narratives of a prison inmate / Liana Biar