Multikulti ist gescheitert, absolut gescheitert! Zur diskursiven Repräsentation der politischen Idee im Bild der deutschen und polnischen Presse
Multikulti ist gescheitert, absolut gescheitert! The discursive representation of the political idea on the example of Polish and German press

Author(s): Izabela Kujawa
Subject(s): Cultural history, Studies of Literature, Philology
Published by: Wydawnictwa Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego
Keywords: political discourse; discourse analysis; multiculturalism; integration policy
Summary/Abstract: For many years in Germany there has been a debate about multiculturalism. Its intensity has varied with the emerging political and economic problems. Each event on the political scene is accompanied by numerous press publications that shape and constitute our discursive image of reality. This image, however, is often only the interpretation of this reality.In the German integration policy of the recent years there was a noticeable caesura line (16.10.2010). It was a speech of German Chancellor Angela Merkel during the party congress Junge Union in Potsdam, during which Angela Merkel admitted that the idea of multiculturalism in Germany had suffered an absolute fiasco: Mulitikulti ist gescheitert, absolut gescheitert!This statement questioned the idea of integration promoted in Germany for years, in favor of a more restrictive policy towards immigrants. In consequence, it had a significant impact on the perception of integration policies across Europe. The event was widely reported in the press, also in the Polish newspapers. The accents dominant in Polish and German press reports, however, were distributed differently.The article is an analysis of the discursive image of reality presented at that time in the German and Polish press, an indication of the differences and an attempt to explain their reasons. The scope of the analysis is composed of the articles from the newspapers that share a similar profile.

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