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“I can’t speak German so I can’t communicate with them”: Language use in intergroup contact between Czechs and Germans

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Petrjánošová M.
Human Affairs
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2012
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vol. 22
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issue 1
69-78
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The aim of this article is to present empirical findings about language use and attitudes in intergroup contact from one of the European borderlands along the former Iron Curtain more than twenty years after it fell. The data was collected as part of an international research project Intergroup attitudes and intergroup contact in five Central European countries, which concentrates on the interplay of intergroup contact and perceptions between members of neighbouring nations in the border regions of the Czech Republic and each of the neighbouring states-Slovakia, Poland, Austria and Germany. The main data collection method used is an online questionnaire with different attitude and evaluation scales, as well as a feeling thermometer of emotional relations and open statements (N=2900). In this text I use thematic and basic critical discursive analysis only on the open statements from the Czech (N=210) and German (N=152) borderlands about the situations of contact and the following evaluation of the Others. I show how the linguistic competence and also the interest in the language of the Other are distributed very unevenly; the implicit norm almost always being that the Czechs should speak German. Of course, this situation has in some cases strong emotional consequences.
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Searching for the ‘Muslims’ in Czech Islamophobia and the effects of intergroup contact in challenging the ‘fear of the unknown’

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del Tronco C. G.
Sociologický časopis. Czech Sociological Review
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2023
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vol. 59
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issue 3
315-338
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Since at least 2014, cross-national surveys have measured the most negative attitudes towards 'Muslims' in the EU among Czech respondents. These attitudes have often been attributed to few contact opportunities with actual Muslims in the country and, thus, public overreliance on the highly negative representations of 'Muslims' in public discourse. However, empirical qualitative assessments of the stereotypes which guide many Czechs' anti-Muslim prejudice and the effects of intergroup contact have been neglected. In an epistemological shortcoming, the survey category 'Muslim' has often been treated as one of analysis rather than of practice. Contrarily, I argue that Czech participants' contingent understandings and racialisation of the category need to be reclaimed as the ontological basis of prejudice. In this study, I relied on the results of a larger constructionist thematic analysis of 31 semi-structured interviews with non-Muslim Czechs and, regardless of citizenship or ethnicity, Muslims living in Czechia conducted in 2020 and 2021. The results show that, in line with public discourse dynamics, 'Muslims' in Czechia are commonly understood as immigrants racialised through their perceived Arabness, Middle Easternness and non-Whiteness. Furthermore, perceptions of Western European 'Muslims' as highly conflictual are juxtaposed with the fragility of Czechia in the face of immigration. Against this backdrop, I examine the mechanisms through which intergroup contact enriches participants' social cognitions of 'Muslims' - namely, subgrouping, positive stereotyping, reduced perceived intergroup threat and anxiety, and (re-)humanisation.
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“The Austrians were surprised that I didn’t speak German”: The role of language in Czech-Austrian relations

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Petrjánošová M., Graf S.
Human Affairs
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2012
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vol. 22
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issue 4
539-557
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Respondents from Austria (N = 146) and the Czech Republic (N = 165) noted down their experiences with people from their neighbouring country and their attitudes to their own country and the neighbouring nation on feeling thermometers. The quantitative content analysis and qualitative critical discourse-inspired analysis of the open statements focused on the role of language in the construction of Czech-Austrian relations. Using qualitative analysis we enquired as to which themes were intertwined with the topic of language, and as to the ways in which the participants perceived themselves, the Others, behind the border, and the relations between the two sides. We looked not only into what participants said but also how they said it. Using statistical analysis we tested the link between language-related topics in the descriptions of intergroup contact and the evaluation of the neighbouring nation as a whole. Throughout the article we compare the findings obtained by the two kinds of analysis and comment on (dis)agreement as well as on the (dis)advantages of both approaches.
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Languages of borderlands, borders of languages: Native and foreign language use in intergroup contact between Czechs and their neighbours

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Petrjánošová M., Leix A.
Human Affairs
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2013
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vol. 23
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issue 4
658-679
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In this article we present a qualitative analysis of empirical findings from an international project on intergroup attitudes and contact in five Central European countries specifically concerning language use. The project concentrated on the interplay of intergroup contact and perception between the members of national groups in the borderlands between the Czech Republic and Austria, Germany, Poland and Slovakia. The open statements analysed here about the contact situations and the ensuing evaluation of the Others were collected as part of an online questionnaire (N=1959). After a short theoretical introduction we reveal the intertwined nature of construing language use: first in each specific borderland, then in the triads speaking together either in the native language of one of the groups (Czechs with Austrians and Germans) or with each speaking their own native languages (Czechs with Poles and Slovaks). Finally we highlight several effects we have observed as a result of being able to compare the situation in more than one neighbourhood, for instance, the effect of the different statuses of the languages involved, or the connection between the language used in contact and a feeling of proximity.
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Jak snižovat předsudky vůči Romům? Sociálněpsychologická perspektiva

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Koky R., Graf S.
Československá psychologie (Czechoslovak Psychology)
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2023
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vol. 67
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issue 6
406-422
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Prejudice against Roma – antipathy towards members of the Roma minority, is deeply rooted in Europe. Moreover, prejudice against the Roma is specifically compared to prejudice against other minorities in the Czech Republic, as it reflects the generally accepted norms of society regarding the acceptance of hostile attitudes towards the Roma. Reducing prejudice against the Roma is thus one of the most current topics not only in the Czech Republic but also in the European context. The Council of the European Union points out the significant discrimination against Roma and in this context calls for that promotion policies over the next decade to eliminate the inequalities of the Roma minority in the EU (The Council of the European Union, 2021). Despite its topicality, the issue of antigypsyism is relatively neglected in social psychology, as well as the topic of intergroup relations between Roma and non-Roma. In this literature review, the authors present the current knowledge on the possibilities for improving relations between Roma and non-Roma. First, the authors look at the psychological background of prejudice and theories about its origins and then devote the main section to the prejudices against the Roma and the ways in which these can be overcome. The study focuses primarily on the starting points of the theory of intergroup contact, the effectiveness of which has been confirmed by a large number of studies. As one of the other possibilities for improving intergroup relations between Roma and non-Roma, the authors present a normative approach that has long been neglected in the psychology of intergroup relations. The authors conclude the literature review focusing on the application potential of the theoretical approaches, i.e. how the findings of current research can be used in practical interventions.
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Předsudky vůči Romům, tedy antipatie vůči členům a členkám romské menšiny, jsou v Evropě hluboce zakořeněné. Předsudky vůči Romům jsou navíc oproti předsudkům vůči jiným menšinám v České republice specifické, neboť odráží společností obecně přijímané normy o akceptovatelnosti nepřátelských postojů k Romům. Snižování předsudků vůči Romům je tak jedním z nejaktuálnějších témat nejen v českém, ale v celoevropském kontextu. Rada Evropské unie například upozorňuje na značnou diskriminaci Romů a v souvislosti s tím tvrdí, že v průběhu příštího desetiletí je nutno prosazovat politická opatření k řešení nerovností, kterými trpí většina romské populace v EU (The Council of The European Union, 2021). Navzdory své aktuálnosti je téma antigypsismu v sociální psychologii poměrně zanedbáváno, stejně jako téma meziskupinových vztahů mezi Romy a Neromy. Tato přehledová studie přináší současné poznatky o možnostech zlepšení vztahů mezi Romy s Neromy. Nejprve se zabývá psychologickým pozadím předsudků a teoriemi jejich vzniku. Hlavní část je věnována předsudkům vůči Romům a možnostem jejich snižování. Zaměřuje se především na východiska teorie meziskupinového kontaktu, jejíž účinnost byla potvrzena velkým množstvím studií. Jako jedna z dalších možností ke zlepšování meziskupinových vztahů mezi Romy a Neromy je představen normativní přístup, který byl v psychologii meziskupinových vztahů dlouhou dobu opomíjen. Závěr přehledové studie je věnován aplikačnímu potenciálu teoretických přístupů, tedy jak poznatky současného výzkumu využít v praktických intervencích.
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