STANCE STRATEGIES IN IMMIGRATION AND RACISM-RELATED DISCOURSE: ANALYSIS AND APPLICATIONS IN AFFECTIVE LEARNING PRACTICES (RACISMMAFF)

 

ESTRATEGIAS DE POSICIONAMIENTO EN EL DISCURSO DEL RACISMO Y LA INMIGRACIÓN: ANÁLISIS Y APLICACIONES EN PRÁCTICAS AFECTIVAS DE APRENDIZAJE (RACISMMAFF)

 

PID2021-125327NB-I00

Funded by:

• Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación, Gobierno de España (MCIN)

            Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation

• Fondo Europeo de Desarrollo Regional (FEDER)

            European Regional Development Fund (ERDF)

 

Framed from the preceding research projects EUROEVIDMOD, EVIDISPRAG and STANCEDISC, this RACISMMAFF project aims its results to add to existing knowledge on the ways in which language users position themselves in immigration and racism-related discourse, and to affect EU university students’ and pre-service teachers’ immigration and racism-related discourse positively, thus permeating EU society.

The continuous flows of mobility in post-modernity, motivated by a wide range of contexts, are creating stratified super-diverse contexts in Europe in which inequality is naturalised, leading to emerging xenophobic ideologies and radicalisation practices. Linguistic structures and communicative practices frequently convey these ideologies, making it necessary to develop linguistic research methodologies that allow identifying and addressing such practices, pointing them out in the discourse of institutional, political and media powers, and approaching them in education to face them through affective pedagogical methodologies aimed to enhance critical thinking and intercultural capacities.

This will help increase the awareness of EU university students and pre-service teachers about their discursive practices through the analysis of their use of stance expressions of three kinds (epistemic stance, effective stance and speech representation) to negotiate and renegotiate their positions towards immigration and racism-related issues, thus increasing their intercultural capacities and their levels of empathy towards the diversity of languages, cultures, and races that derive from immigrants’ reception in Europe.