Psycholinguistic peculiarities of personal ethnic tolerance/intolerance manifestation

Abstract

The article is devoted to analysis of theoretical and empirical research psycholinguistic markers manifestation of ethnic tolerance/intolerance students. The basic approaches to definitions of ethnic tolerance, ethnic identity, ethnic prejudices and ethnic stereotypes are analyzed. The characteristic features of ethnic tolerance/intolerance, levels of ethnic identity, the relationship with the level of ethnic tolerance of ethnic identity cards are revealed. Empirical research involved the
definition of social distance in relation to a representative of an ethnic group according to the social role that is acceptable to subjects in interaction, determine the type of ethnic identity of respondents and identify psycholinguistic markers manifestation of ethnic intolerance against members of ethnic communities in relation to which social distance in interpersonal interactions were the most. It was empirically
found that 48,9 % of the subjects with positive ethnic identity, which is characterized by a combination of positive attitudes towards their own people with a positive attitude to other people; 30,2 % of respondents identified this type of ethnic identity as an ethnic indifference, which indicates a “fuzzy”, blurred ethnic identity, expressed in uncertainty ethnicity irrelevant ethnicity. For 20,9 % of respondents are ethnic
inherent selfishness that can be expressed in harmless form on a verbal level as a result of perception through the prism of “my nation / people” but may involve tension and irritation in communication with other ethnic groups or recognition of the rights of their people solve problems “expense of others”. The results of empirical studies have shown the presence of ethnic prejudices and stereotypes among students
regarding members of certain nationalities, namely the presence of negative, deep heterostereotypes against the Russians and surface negative stereotypes about Germans as members of other ethnic groups and positive underlying autostereotypes towards own ethnic group.

Keywords: ethnic tolerance, xenophobia, ethnic identity, ethnic self-consciousness, ethnic prejudices and ethnic stereotypes, etnophobia.