Antilocution

In prejudice research, antilocution is understood to be the free pronunciation of prejudices among like-minded people. In everyday German it is roughly translatable as defamation or with “talking about them behind the backs of others” , whereby what is meant here in particular is that groups assure themselves of their prejudices against other groups.

Antilocution according to Allport

The term was defined in 1954 by the psychologist Gordon Allport in his book The Nature of Prejudice . It is the first level on the Allport scale .

The antilocution contributes to the fact that prejudices such as ethnophaulisms are strengthened.

See also

• Hate speech

literature

• Gordon W. Allport: The Nature of Prejudice , Longman Higher Education, 1954. ISBN 0-201-00179-9 . (New edition of Perseus Books for the 25th anniversary of the first edition 1979)
• Gordon W. Allport: The nature of prejudice , from the American by Hanna Graumann. Kiepenheuer & Witsch, 1971. ISBN 3-462-00826-9 .