STEREOTYPES, PREJUDICES AND DISCRIMINATION (LANGUAGE, LITERATURE, CULTURE, HISTORY, MEDIA, EDUCATION)

Suggested topics include, but are not limited to, the following issues:

• types of prejudices and discrimination (e.g. racism, sexism, ageism, homophobia);

• the origins of prejudice and discrimination;

• aggression (hostile aggression, instrumental aggression);

• intimidation as a contemporary form of aggression (bullying, cyberbullying);

• the dichotomies of  the self/the other,  the self/the stranger,  the natural/abnormal,  the normative/non-normative, the civilised/uncivilized;

• practices intended to degrade others (labelling, stigmatising, stereotyping, dehumanisation, depersonification);

• hate speech;

• strategies of exclusion (rhetoric of contempt, rhetoric of threat);

• lie, slander, manipulating the meaning of words);

• limits to freedom of expression;

• the dichotomy of altruism/egoism;

• femininity and masculinity in the media, literature, culture.

We also invite authors to submit proposals for the Varia section, where we publish papers consistent with the aims and scope of our journal, which are not directly related to the main theme of the volume.

Submission deadline: 15 September 2024