Stereotypes And Prejudices At The Border: An Attempt At Raising Intercultural Awareness Through Examples From The Bulgarian And The British Media Cover Image

Stereotypes And Prejudices At The Border: An Attempt At Raising Intercultural Awareness Through Examples From The Bulgarian And The British Media
Stereotypes And Prejudices At The Border: An Attempt At Raising Intercultural Awareness Through Examples From The Bulgarian And The British Media

Author(s): Desislava Cheshmedzhieva-Stoycheva
Subject(s): Anthropology, Social Sciences, Language and Literature Studies, Media studies, Theoretical Linguistics, Communication studies, Sociology, Comparative Linguistics, Culture and social structure , Migration Studies, Ethnic Minorities Studies, Globalization
Published by: Шуменски университет »Епископ Константин Преславски«
Keywords: media discourse; refugees; stereotypes; CDA

Summary/Abstract: Using a corpus comprised of examples from the Bulgarian and the British print media discourse on the topic of refugees, the paper aims at analyzing the stereotypes and prejudices that are formed and promoted at the encounter of the Other who is culturally and/or religiously different. In addition, the paper looks into the possible attitudes that these stereotypes can provoke towards refugees and the awareness of the image of the cultural Other that they contribute to. The main method of analysis is CDA and the aim is comparing and contrasting the linguistic devices used in both the Bulgarian and the British media on the topic in two different time periods.

  • Issue Year: 2/2017
  • Issue No: 1
  • Page Range: 184-197
  • Page Count: 14
  • Language: English, Bulgarian