Abstract
This paper focuses on short- and long-term migrants between Argentina and Germany, as well as between Argentina and Austria, and their discourses about their lives between their host and home countries. Blogs, journalistic articles, and in-depth interviews are analysed from a qualitative perspective in order to examine hetero- and auto-stereotypes. How can these stereotypes be described from a linguistic and discursive point of view? How do speakers express or avoid the responsibility of uttered stereotypes? To answer these questions, we draw on an overarching Critical Discourse Studies framework. At the same time, Pümpel- Mader’s (2010) approach is helpful to better understand the linguistic properties of stereotypes, as it distinguishes between social categories, the characteristics attributed to them, and a series of modifiers. Within this framework, forms and contents of stereotypes, as well as phenomena like subgrouping and the use of personal experience are referred to. Further, some rhetorical strategies used to display stereotype awareness or leading to actual stereotype avoidance are pointed out.
About the author
Edith Lupprich graduated in Hispanic Linguistics and Literature at the National University of Tucumán, Argentina. Currently, she holds a doctoral research fellowship from the National Scientific and Technical Research Council (CONICET). Her research interests are Critical Discourse Studies, Membership Categorization Analysis, sociolinguistics, national identities and stereotypes.
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