Südtiroler Moschee-Konflikte seit den 1990-er Jahren Argumentationslinien in den Tageszeitungen „Dolomiten“ und „Alto Adige“

Abstract

South Tyrolean’s Mosque conflicts since the 1990s

Lines of argumentation in the newspaper “Dolomiten” and “Alto Adige”

The following paper is about the perception of mosque buildings in the daily South Tyrolean newspaper, the German-language ‘Dolomiten’ and the Italian-language ‘Alto Adige’. The particle has two aims, for one, it gives an historical overview about the mosque debates in South Tyro from 1990 until today. Building on that, the paper offers an analysis, and particularly a comparison, of argumentation paradigms present in the two South Tyrolean newspapers. As will be seen, both newspaper use argumentation patterns in different kind of ways.