Language-based discrimination: Blatant and subtle forms

Journal of Language and Social Psychology

Volumn 26, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 106-122

  Ng, Sik Hung ^a  

^a CITY UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

Enactment and routinization of discrimination; Encoding; Linguistic justification; Power and language

Indexed keywords

EID: 34247844295     PISSN: 0261927X     EISSN: 15526526     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0261927X07300074     Document Type: Review

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