Combating Prejudice and Racism: New Interventions from a Functional Analysis of Racist Language

Journal of Community and Applied Social Psychology

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 29-45

  Guerin, Bernard ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WAIKATO   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Conversational analysis; Discourse analysis; Discrimination; Interventions; Network therapy; Prejudice; Racism

Indexed keywords

EID: 0037277225     PISSN: 10529284     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/casp.699     Document Type: Article

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