1. Investigating violence in language: An introduction (by Silva, Daniel N.); 2. Part I. The language of violence: Conflict, policing, frontiers; 3. Chapter 1. The invention of violence (by Taddei, Renzo); 4. Chapter 2. Voice and silence in the suburbs of Sao Paulo: State, community and the meanings of violence (by Galdeano, Ana Paula); 5. Chapter 3. From the side of the Road to the Borders of the Page: Mapping the legibility of people and words at the margins (by Goldstein, Ruth); 6. Part II. The violence of language: Hate speech, speech act, injuries; 7. Chapter 4. The circulation of violence in discourse (by Silva, Daniel N.); 8. Chapter 5. Racist speech as a linguistic discriminatory practice in Brazil: Between the speech act's reference and effects (by Santos Allen, Karla Cristina dos); 9. Chapter 6. Free speech, hate speech, and hate beards: Language ideologies of Dutch populism (by Leezenberg, Michiel); 10. Part III. The intersections of violence, bodies and languages: Epistemology, narrative, corporealities; 11. Chapter 7. On languages, bodies and epistemic violence (by Plaza Pinto, Joana); 12. Chapter 8. Queering violence and narrative: Voices from a marginalized community (by Lewis, Elizabeth Sara); 13. Chapter 9. Discursive constructions of deviance in the narratives of a prison inmate (by Biar, Liana)