Language as a Window into Discriminatio...

There is perhaps no better way to gain an insight into a society than to observe the language it uses. And there is no better way to analyze such a discourse than to use large representative language corpora available today. Following this claim, I wish to propose a hypothesis that the extent of discrimination in one society (a very important topic at this point in time of global migrations) can be linked to the extent to which discriminatory expressions are used in everyday communication in that given society. To demonstrate the empirical attestability of this hypothesis, I will offer an analysis of the extent of discriminatory expressions within four South-European languages (and by hypothesized correlation also societies), namely in German, Romanian, Serbian, and Slovenian.