36.2620, Books: The Language of Othering in a Diverse Europe: Falkowska and Linde-Usiekniewicz (ed.) (2025)

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Date: 03-Sep-2025
From: Rosanna Woensdregt [rosanna.woensdregt at degruyterbrill.com]
Subject: The Language of Othering in a Diverse Europe: Falkowska and Linde-Usiekniewicz (ed.) (2025)


Title: The Language of Othering in a Diverse Europe
Series Title: Brill's Studies in Language, Cognition and Culture
Publication Year: 2025

Publisher: De Gruyter Brill
           https://www.degruyterbrill.com/?changeLang=en
Book URL: https://brill.com/display/title/72838

Editor(s): Marta Falkowska and Jadwiga Linde-Usiekniewicz

Hardback ISBN: 978-90-04-73911-6
E-book ISBN:  978-90-04-74322-9

Abstract:

This book explores how language is used to create division and
discrimination in diverse European societies by emphasizing
differences in ethnicity, race, national identity, beliefs, or
appearance. The authors analyze how public discourse—particularly in
political and media narratives—shapes and reinforces an “us vs. them”
mindset. They examine words and expressions that denigrate or
marginalize specific groups in Polish, German, Czech, Slovak, and
Croatian, and observe how certain communities are also reclaiming
terms that were once hurtful. The analyses of linguistic strategies
employed in the process of othering demonstrate that the concept of
othering can be effectively applied to linguistic data.
Contributors are: Dagmara Banasiak, Marta Chojnacka-Kuraś, Marta
Falkowska, Jadranka Gvozdanović, Milena Hebal-Jezierska, Agnieszka
Karlińska, Anna Kołos, Marie Kopřivová, Marek Łaziński, Jadwiga
Linde-Usiekniewicz, Agnieszka Mikołajczuk, Iva Petrak, Jiří Rejzek,
Lucie Saicová Římalová, Łukasz Wnuk, and Magdalena Zawisławska.

Linguistic Field(s): Pragmatics
                     Semantics
                     Sociolinguistics

Subject Language(s): Croatian (hrv)
                     Czech (ces)
                     German (deu)
                     Polish (pol)
                     Slovak (slk)

Language Family(ies): German
                      South Slavic
                      West Slavic

Written In: English (eng)



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