Speech Acts: Sampling the Social Construction of Mental Retardation in Everyday Life

Mental Retardation

Volumn 36, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 31-43

  Danforth, Scot ^a   Navarro, Virginia ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI ST LOUIS   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MENTAL DEFICIENCY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY; VERBAL BEHAVIOR;

FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MENTAL RETARDATION; STEREOTYPING; VERBAL BEHAVIOR;

EID: 0031991077     PISSN: 00476765     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1352/0047-6765(1998)036<0031:SASTSC>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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