RAVE & C-RAVE
2015–2020
Building on methods developed under RAVE, C-RAVE aims to explore how
socio-linguistic stereotypes are constructed in a different cultural
context, namely in the multi-ethnic and matriarchal African state Seychelles.
Stereotypes and prejudices are culturally bound. What is considered a
"good or bad" characteristic in one culture not necessarily deemed the same in
another. In order to understand our own patterns of behavior and view others with
more open eyes cross cultural and intercultural perspectives can be enlightening.
It is in this light C-RAVE is to be understood. The proposed five-year project
builds on RAVE, funded by the Swedish Research Council, and the overall aim is
to develop efficient methods to illustrate how sociolinguistic founded prejudices
and stereotypes affect how we judge others.
People @ Humlab
In cooperation with
- Mats Deutchmann
- Anders Steinvall
- Institutionen för språkstudier
- Örebro Universitet
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More specifically C-RAVE will examine two dimensions of linguistic stereotyping, gender and ethnicity. We aim to explore: how responses to the same material differ between two cultural contexts (Sweden and the Seychelles), and how methods can be developed for using the above findings as a starting point for raising awareness about stereotyping is culturally bound and how it may differ from culture to culture.