CATEGORIZATION OF FOREIGNER GROUPS BY THEIR LABELING (BASED ON THE ANALYSIS OF THE POLISH PRESS DISCOURSE)
CATEGORIZATION OF FOREIGNER GROUPS BY THEIR LABELING (BASED ON THE ANALYSIS OF THE POLISH PRESS DISCOURSE)

Summary/Abstract: This socio-cultural analysis will be focused on defining logical criteria serving the authors of press articles for labeling different ethnic groups connected with the School of Polish for Foreigners at the University of Łódź who live in Dormitory No. 14 (the so-called ‘Babel Tower of Łódź’, i.e. BTŁ). Also, the naming strategies applied in the description of dark-skinned people and the press image of foreign students’ residence will be discussed, as embodied in conventionalized expressions and metaphors. The collection of press texts consists of 150 articles written between 1989–2003 such as news, reports, and essays in which the main or subordinate topic is either the inhabitants of the Babel Tower of Łódź or the Babel Tower itself. This analysis shows that journalists, by repeating the same patterns of labeling ethnic groups, are most responsible for producing negative mental scripts in the readers’ minds.

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