Open AccessETHNIC TOLERANCE IN PRINT MEDIA DISCOURSE
Author(s) -
A.A. Biyumena
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
vestnik udmurtskogo universiteta. istoriâ i filologiâ
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2413-2454
pISSN - 2412-9534
DOI - 10.35634/2412-9534-2021-31-5-963-970
Subject(s) - ethnic group , solidarity , newspaper , politics , print media , political science , gender studies , sociology , media studies , law
The article examines the discourse of ethnic tolerance in modern Belarusian print media. The main media topics of the newspaper articles that form a tolerant attitude towards representatives of various countries, nations and ethnic groups are analyzed. They include migrants and national minorities, foreign students and international marriages, as well as countries the Republic of Belarus cooperates with. The leading strategies of representing various ethnic groups in the print media discourse are determined (strategies of positive and negative positioning, solidarity and information). The key lexemes explicating these strategies are described. The study reveals that one of the goals of the ethnic tolerance discourse in the Belarusian press is to form and maintain the image of the Belarusian state as a country favorable for living. The results of the study prove that tolerance discourse is determined by extralinguistic factors - social, political, economic, etc.