Invective coding of intercultural encounters (CRC 1285 sub-project R)

Invective coding of intercultural encounters: Ethnographical analysis of situations in intercultural trainings and integration courses

The subproject R of the CRC 'Invectivity: Constellations and Dynamics of Disparagement' investigates how marking cultural differences is structured by the potentiality of invectivity, which communication forms of realisation or avoidance of invectives are characteristic features of interculturally coded social situations, and to what extent these contribute to the dynamisation, erosion or stabilisation of social order (ideas). In an ethnographic-praxeological approach, the subproject focuses on the situational realisation of intercultural actualities and the associated negotiation processes of diverging social or normative validity claims in two practical areas of intercultural learning and teaching: (A) Intercultural competence training for members of German organisations in fields of activity which are based on and reproduce trans-national cooperation (e.g. business, science); (B) Integration courses in the context of refugees and migration, aimed at regulating trans-national mobility practices within the national regulatory framework of the Federal Republic of Germany.

More information about the project and the CRC can be found here.