Leading university:
University of Warsaw
Project leader:
Asst. Prof. Marta Falkowska
Contact:
[e-mail]
Flagship:
Flagship 2: Europeanness: multilingualism, pluralities, citizenship
Participating universities:
Charles University, Heidelberg University, University of Warsaw
The project aims to explore the concept of OTHERING by examining referential and discursive strategies used in public discourse across selected languages (Polish, German, Czech, Croatian). The objective is to analyse and categorize these strategies, which are aimed at excluding, marginalizing, delegitimizing, and denigrating groups or individuals. The project will focus on new words and derivatives related to immigrants/refugees, political and ideological opponents, stereotypes about nations and minority groups, and people perceived through their characteristic features. By studying language, the project seeks to understand how people perceive, interpret, and categorize the world around them, as well as how ideology-based or ethnicity-based prejudice is formed. The research will investigate explicit and implicit strategies of othering and exclusion in various types of discourse in the respective languages. The theoretical framework for this work draws from cognitive semantics and critical discourse analysis. Corpus methods will be used for data acquisition and quantitative analysis. The findings will be presented at a final conference in Warsaw and published in an edited and peer-reviewed collection of papers.