Title: The Language of Othering in a Diverse Europe
Series Title: Brill's Studies in Language, Cognition and Culture
Publication Year: 2025

Publisher: De Gruyter Brill
https://www.degruyterbrill.com/?changeLang=en
Book URL: https://brill.com/display/title/72838

Editor(s): Marta Falkowska and Jadwiga Linde-Usiekniewicz

Hardback ISBN: 978-90-04-73911-6
E-book ISBN: 978-90-04-74322-9

Abstract:

This book explores how language is used to create division and discrimination in diverse European societies by emphasizing differences in ethnicity, race, national identity, beliefs, or appearance. The authors analyze how public discourse—particularly in political and media narratives—shapes and reinforces an “us vs. them” mindset. They examine words and expressions that denigrate or marginalize specific groups in Polish, German, Czech, Slovak, and Croatian, and observe how certain communities are also reclaiming terms that were once hurtful. The analyses of linguistic strategies employed in the process of othering demonstrate that the concept of othering can be effectively applied to linguistic data.

Contributors are: Dagmara Banasiak, Marta Chojnacka-Kuraś, Marta Falkowska, Jadranka Gvozdanović, Milena Hebal-Jezierska, Agnieszka Karlińska, Anna Kołos, Marie Kopřivová, Marek Łaziński, Jadwiga Linde-Usiekniewicz, Agnieszka Mikołajczuk, Iva Petrak, Jiří Rejzek, Lucie Saicová Římalová, Łukasz Wnuk, and Magdalena Zawisławska.

Linguistic Field(s): Pragmatics
Semantics
Sociolinguistics

Subject Language(s): Croatian (hrv)
Czech (ces)
German (deu)
Polish (pol)
Slovak (slk)

Language Family(ies): German
South Slavic
West Slavic

Written In: English (eng)