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Title [sv]
Hur uppstår rasism? Om uppfattningar kring språkbruk och språklig diskriminering inom två professioner i Sverige och Tyskland
Title [en]
The emergence of racism. On beliefs about language use and linguistic discrimination among two professional groups in Sweden and Germany.
Abstract [en]
Linguistic choices play an important role in how we identify and classify each other and ourselves, i.e. we speak and refer to each other by using linguistic categories. In this project we want to examine how pejorative language use is perceived, what classifies as pejoratives, how this is construed and in other ways contextualized. We intend to compare attitudes to pejoratives and their actual use Germany and Sweden, two countries with quite different general approaches to discrimination and discourses regarding for example racism. To speak badly of a group of people is not necessarily a criminal offense – an issue much discussed from a rhetorical perspective e.g. within the U.S. hate-speech debate - but to discriminate in real action might be. It could therefore be asked where the boundaries between linguistic action and other actions are drawn, and also what means are used to legitimizing, rationalizing and otherwise framing linguistic choices. Problems with racist tendencies in the former Eastern European countries are also a factor behind the need for a better understanding of how racism may be construed from a linguistic and interaction perspective. Our model for analysis is informed by linguistic pragmatics, which seeks to understand how language is used, mainly from a cognitively oriented pragmatics that focuses both the language use and the language user. Intersectionality theory is another important starting point. The project will focus on police officers and health workers - their language, their perception of certain derogatory personal names and their attitudes to linguistic practices. These groups will be studied in several ways: in language-focused discussions (in which participants reflect on language and meaning), in role-plays (where participants demonstrate their and others 'language) and in surveys (where the participants' perception of language is reflected).
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Landqvist, M. (2015). A professional–cultural approach to discrimination – constructions of police discrimination in two European countries. Journal of Multicultural Discourses, 10(3), 313-331
Open this publication in new window or tab >>A professional–cultural approach to discrimination – constructions of police discrimination in two European countries
2015 (English)In: Journal of Multicultural Discourses, ISSN 1744-7143, E-ISSN 1747-6615, Vol. 10, no 3, p. 313-331Article in journal (Refereed) Published
Abstract [en]

From a critical analytical framework, this article analyses survey responses conveying Swedish and German police officers' understanding of discriminatory behaviour in the workplace. The article relates discursive constructions of discrimination made in respondents' accounts of potential factors behind discrimination, and in positioning oneself. Taking into account previous studies on constructions of discrimination, this study develops and proposes some key strategies of explication of the cultural meanings assigned to forms of discrimination as well as justification of or resistance to discriminatory behaviour in professional contexts. Resistance to discrimination is displayed through (1) exposition of reasons behind discrimination, (2) display of a critical self-image and (3) strategic choice of mode of report. Differences to be found between Swedish and German respondents are attention to detail, to underlying factors in discrimination and to typical communicative practices regarding discriminatory behaviour. Sexism is acknowledged as a violation to a comparatively high degree, whereas racism is reported much less.
Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Routledge, 2015
Keywords
Discrimination, cultural critical discourse analysis, police, racism, sexism
National Category
Specific Languages
Research subject
Baltic and East European studies; Other research area
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:sh:diva-28210 (URN)10.1080/17447143.2015.1071822 (DOI)000214180000003 ()2-s2.0-84945450796 (Scopus ID)1298/42/2009 (Local ID)1298/42/2009 (Archive number)1298/42/2009 (OAI)
Funder
The Foundation for Baltic and East European Studies, A034-2009
Available from: 2015-09-07 Created: 2015-09-07 Last updated: 2025-10-07Bibliographically approved
Hornscheidt, L. & Landqvist, M. (2014). Språk och diskriminering (1ed.). Lund: Studentlitteratur AB
Open this publication in new window or tab >>Språk och diskriminering
2014 (Swedish)Book (Other academic)
Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Lund: Studentlitteratur AB, 2014. p. 218 Edition: 1
Keywords
språk, pragmatik, diskriminering, konstruktivism, diskursanalys, positionering, intersektionalitet
National Category
Specific Languages
Research subject
Baltic and East European studies
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:sh:diva-24392 (URN)1298/42/2009 (Local ID)978-91-44-08977-5 (ISBN)1298/42/2009 (Archive number)1298/42/2009 (OAI)
Funder
The Foundation for Baltic and East European Studies, A034-2009
Available from: 2014-08-20 Created: 2014-08-20 Last updated: 2025-10-07Bibliographically approved
Landqvist, M. (2013). Oacceptabla benämningar: Polisers uppfattningar om kränkande språkbruk. In: Christina Rosén, Per Simfors, Ann-Kari Sundberg (Ed.), Christina Rosén, Per Simfors, Ann-Kari Sundberg (Ed.), Språk i undervisning: rapport från ASLA:s vårsymposium, Linköping, 11-12 maj, 2012 = papers from the ASLA symposium in Linköping, 11-12- May, 2012. Paper presented at ASLA:s vårsymposium Linköping, 11-12 maj, 2012. (pp. 49-59). Linköping: Svenska föreningen för tillämpad språkvetenskap
Open this publication in new window or tab >>Oacceptabla benämningar: Polisers uppfattningar om kränkande språkbruk
2013 (Swedish)In: Språk i undervisning: rapport från ASLA:s vårsymposium, Linköping, 11-12 maj, 2012 = papers from the ASLA symposium in Linköping, 11-12- May, 2012 / [ed] Christina Rosén, Per Simfors, Ann-Kari Sundberg, Linköping: Svenska föreningen för tillämpad språkvetenskap , 2013, p. 49-59Conference paper, Published paper (Refereed)
Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Linköping: Svenska föreningen för tillämpad språkvetenskap, 2013
Series
ASLA:s skriftserie, ISSN 1100-5629 ; 24
Keywords
Språkattityder, språkbruk, professioner, polis, pejorisering, nedsättande språk, situerat
National Category
Specific Languages
Research subject
Other research area
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:sh:diva-21349 (URN)1298/42/2009 (Local ID)978-91-7519-479-0 (ISBN)978-91-7519-406-6 (ISBN)1298/42/2009 (Archive number)1298/42/2009 (OAI)
Conference
ASLA:s vårsymposium Linköping, 11-12 maj, 2012.
Funder
The Foundation for Baltic and East European Studies, A034-2009
Note

Reviderad upplaga av proceeding 2014.

Available from: 2014-01-15 Created: 2014-01-15 Last updated: 2025-10-07Bibliographically approved
Principal InvestigatorLandqvist, Mats
Coordinating organisation
Södertörn University
Funder
Period
2010-01-01 － 2012-12-31
Keywords [sv]
Östersjö- och Östeuropaforskning
Keywords [en]
Baltic and East European studies
National Category
General Language Studies and Linguistics
Identifiers
DiVA, id: project:1859Project, id: A034-2009_OSS

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