DISCOURSE AND RACISM

Discourse strands and collective symbols
1. STRANDS
  1. Several discourses are tangled
    1. Knot discourse
    2. Encompasses various subtopics
  2. Intensive discourses
2. COLLECTIVE SYMBOLS
  1. Cultural Stereotypes
    1. Topoi
  2. Catachereses
    1. Technique for collecting symbols
  3. The main focus of the Duisburg studies is
    1. Semantics
3. Siegfried Jäger and the Duisburg group
  1. Their method leads people to tell their personal stories in depth
    1. media analysis, in particular of the German tabloid Bildzeitung
4. The main focus of the Duisburg is study
  1. Semantics discourse
    1. discourse levels” (i.e. science, politics, media, education, everyday life, business life, and administra tion).
      1. That are immediately understood by the mem bers of the same speech community
The Loughborough group
1. They tend to universilized the conditions of racism
  1. Discourse is actively constitutive of both social and psychological processes
prejudices and stereotypes
1. What are prejudice and stereotype?
  1. prejudices are mental states in a social group defining negative attitudes of stereotypic convictions or beliefs.
    1. Prejudices and stereotypes are analytical approaches to racism
      1. there is another apprach which is
        the Sociocognitive approach
        prejudice is not based on individual beliefs or emotions, on contrary is based on social communication and interaction that conforms 8 categories of discrimination
        diversion
        dominance
        diffusion
        depersonalization
        differentiation
        distance
        destruction
        daily discrimination
        the text suggests the long-term memory keeps the production and retention of social prejudices
        Which are those social prejudices?
        prejudices are influenced by status, appearance, social cultural norms and socioeconomic status, religion, language.
        The Social prejudices keep production and retention in
        long-term memory through
        the episodic memory that belongs in personal experiences narrated or personally retained experiences
        Where come from prejudices?
        The elites produces and reproduces the racism that is implemented and enacted in other social fields.
  2. linguistically Quasthoff (2001) defines stereotype as a verbal expression caused by convictions or beliefs toward a social group.
Racist discourses
1. the text requires people do Racist discourses dynamic and contradictory.
2. which is the function of Racist discourses?
  1. to construct collective subjects such as:
    1. races
    2. nations
    3. ethnicities
  2. construction, perpetuating, transformational, and destructive social context
  3. play a decisive role in the genesis and production of certain social conditions
  4. perpetuate, produce and justify a certain social status. "realized" "natinalized" "ethnicized".
3. The analytical discourse includes different studies such as
  1. the topic or the contents
  2. argumentation
  3. linguistic mean
  4. discriminatory stereotypes
Conclusion
1. it is possible to delimit racism from adjacent or possibly overlapping discriminatory phenomena
  1. Antisemitism
  2. Nationalism
  3. Ethnicism
  4. Sexism
  5. Clear boundaries between these differences
    1. Despite the vast amount of specialist literature in the areas
      1. social science
      2. philosophy
      3. discourse analysis
      4. history
2. Definition of race
  1. Synopsis of five discourse analytical approaches
    1. Problem of Racism, and a illustration of the discourse-historical approach.
      1. Racism remains amultifaceled and theoretically complex issue that leaves us without comprenhesive ansewrs to many questions
        What exctly are we supossed to take "racist" and "racism" to mean?
        Which specific forms of “genetic,” “culturalist,” and “institutional racism” do we nowadays face and what causes them?
        How do these different forms of racism manifest themselves in discourse?
    2. Analytical approaches
      1. Of the Historical approach
    3. The problem of racism
    4. Illustration
The Concept of Race
1. We can define it by 2 areas
  1. Biology
  2. Genetics
    1. From a social functional point of view, “race” is a social construcion
      1. It has been used as a legitimating ideological tool to oppress and exploit specific social groups
        To deny the access to
        Material resources
        Cultural resources
        Political resources
        Work
        Welfare services
        Housing
        Political rights
      2. The concept around and used it to construct an alternative, positive self-identity
        Also used it as a basis for political resistance and to fight for
        Political autonomy
        Independence
        participation

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