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As the article and especially the analysis of the example in section 5.6. have
shown, the problem of social discrimination in discourses is far too complex
to be grasped comprehensively by an exclusive analysis of intercultural com-
munication in a strict sense. Verbal and visual discrimination are topics which
are best approached in interdisciplinary analyses that combine the analysis of
intercultural communication with critical discourse analysis and, possibly, also
with politological analysis, social-psychological analysis, legal analysis and
economic analysis.

Notes

1. I would like to thank Helga Kotthoff and Ingrid Piller for constructive comments on an
earlier version of the article and Maura Bayer for correcting my English.
2. See Wagner (2001: 12–13) for a slightly different terminological distinction of “di-
rect” and “indirect” as well as “explicit” and “implicit discrimination”.
3. In comparison to Scollon and Scollon (2003a), Scollon and Scollon (2003b) mention
just two meanings of “discourse”. In the narrow sense – they explain – “discourse”
means “language in use”. In a broader sense, they regard “discourse” as “a body of
language use and other factors that form a “social language” such as the discourse of
traffic regulation, commercial discourse, medical discourse, legal discourse.” (Scollon
and Scollon 2003b: 210).

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