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The Others in the Czech Republic: their image and their languages

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Published/Copyright: February 9, 2016

Abstract

This corpus-assisted study attempts to unpack the Czech majority’s image of the Others people who are different from native ethnic Czechs and of their native languages as seen by the majority in the Czech Republic. The data from collocation and keyword analyses suggest there is increasing expectation for national minorities and immigrants to acquire proficiency in Czech. Given the strong association between language and power, the image of languages other than Czech does not fully overlap with the image of the large part of the Others, especially national minorities. Multilingualism in the Czech majority view is not understood as nurturing a community where multiple languages coexist within the country.

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