STEREOTYPES AND PREJUDICES AT THE BORDER: AN ATTEMPT AT RAISING INTERCULTURAL AWARENESS THROUGH EXAMPLES FROM THE BULGARIAN AND THE BRITISH MEDIA

Abstract

Using a corpus comprised of examples from the Bulgarian and the British print media discourse on the topic of refugees, the paper aims at analyzing the stereotypes and prejudices that are formed and promoted at the encounter of the Other who is culturally and/or religiously different. In addition, the paper looks into the possible attitudes that these stereotypes can provoke towards refugees and the awareness of the image of the cultural Other that they contribute to. The main method of analysis is CDA and the aim is comparing and contrasting the linguistic devices used in both the Bulgarian and the British media on the topic in two different time periods.

Keywords

• media discourse
• refugees
• stereotypes
• cda