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How do we construct national identities in discourse? Which topics, which discursive strategies and which linguistic devices are employed to construct national sameness and uniqueness on the one hand, and differences to other national collectives on the o

Discourse and Discrimination is a study of how racism, antisemitism and ethnicism are reflected in discourse. The authors first survey five established discourse analysis approaches before providing their own model and three case-studies. Drawing on a wide range of sources, they question why racism and anti-Semitism are still virulent worldwide. Martin Reisigl is based at the University of Vienna and is co-author of The Discursive Construction of National Identity. Ruth Wodak is Professor of Applied Linguistics in the Department of Linguistics at the University of Vienna. Her books include Disorders of Discourse, Gender and Discourse, and Language, Power and Ideology.

The concept of the nation as an imagined community has gained importance in the relevant literature during the last decade. How do we construct national identities in discourse? Which topics, which discursive strategies and which linguistic devices are employed to construct national sameness and uniqueness on the one hand, and differences to other national collectives on the other hand? These questions were investigated in our study on the Austrian nation and identity. Taking several current social scientific approaches as our point of departure, we have developed a method of description and analysis of these phenomena which has applications beyond the discursive production of national identity in the specific Austrian example studied. By focusing particularly on the discursive construction of (national) sameness, this study has broken new ground in discourse-historical analysis, which until now has mainly been concerned with the analysis of the discursive construction of difference.

Discourse and Discrimination is a study of how racism, antisemitism and ethnicism are reflected in discourse. The authors first survey five established discourse analysis approaches before providing their own model and three case-studies. Drawing on a wide range of sources, they question why racism and anti-Semitism are still virulent worldwide.

The concept of >stereotype< is used in a variety of disciplines with changing meanings. They intersect – up to synonymity – with neighboring notions such as >prejudice<, >cliché<, >image<, >phrase<, >common place< and >prototype<. Stereotypes are related to semantic features such as stenciled simplification, generalization and caricaturing, biased presumption, far-reaching inflexibility as well as independence of experience, habitualisation and emotionally tinted evaluations. They are usually located in the area of preconceptional cognition, but sometimes (especially within linguistics) on the level of semiotic and especially linguistic manifestation. Their ambiguous functional status oscillates among apperceptive economy, linguistic schematizing and the (dangerous) coining of predispositions to act. All this is exposed in detail in the present article after the reconstruction of the linguistic history of the term.

URN: urn:nbn:de:0114-fqs0702P75

The concept of >stereotype< is used in a variety of disciplines with changing meanings. They intersect – up to synonymith – with neighboring notions such as >prejudice<, >cliché<, >image<, >phrase<, >common place< and >prototype<. Stereotypes are related to semantic features such as stenciled simplification, generalization and caricaturing, biased presumption, far-reaching inflexibility as well as independence of experience, habitualisation and emotionally tinted evaluations. They are usually located in the area of preconceptional cognition, but sometimes (especially within linguistics) on the level of semiotic and especially linguistic manifestation. Their ambiguous functional status oscillates among apperceptive economy, linguistic schematizing and the (dangerous) coining of predispositions to act. All this is exposed in detail in the present article after the reconstruction of the linguistic history of the term.