Debating Diversity : Analysing the Discourse of Tolerance

ISBN-13: 9780415191388 / Angielski / Miękka / 1998 / 252 str.

Jan Blommaert; Jef Verschueren

Opis

In this work, the authors focus primarily on the rhetoric of the tolerant majority - those who view themselves as being open to a diverse society. An analysis is presented of this rhetoric of tolerance which is prevalent in news media, influential social-scientific research reports, the policy statements of major political parties, and in government-sponsored expressions of anti-racism.T he authors use empirical data taken from the context of migrant policies in Belguim, and connect this with wider European nationalist ideologies, and conclusions of research on racism and nationalism throughout the world, particularly the US and the former Yugoslavia.

Spis treści

Introduction PART I Diversity: the issue 1 The management of diversity 2 Group relations, cognition and language PART II The ingredients of an ideology 3 The ‘migrant problem’ 4 The central concepts 5 Homogeneism PART III Homogeneism at work 6 Training for tolerance 7 Educating the public 8 Anti-racism, Epilogue

O autorze

Jan Blommaert is Professor of African Linguistics at the University of Ghent, Belgium. Jef Verschueren founded the IPrA (International Pragmatics Association) in 1986 and currently directs its research centre at the University of Antwerp. Both authors have previously collaborated on The Pragmatics of Intercultural and International Communication (1991).