"You" and "I," "Us" and "Them": A systemic-discursive approach to the study of ethnic stereotypes in the context of British-Greek heterosexual couple relationships

Family Process

Volumn 46, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 515-522

  Tseliou, Eleftheria ^a   Eisler, Ivan ^a  

^a King's College ^*  (Greece)

Author keywords

British Greek couples; Discourse analysis; Ethnic stereotypes; Ethnically mixed couples; Systemic discursive approach

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ETHNOLOGY; FAMILY SIZE; FEMALE; GREECE; HETEROSEXUALITY; HUMAN; INTERVIEW; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY; UNITED KINGDOM;

ADULT; FAMILY CHARACTERISTICS; FEMALE; GREAT BRITAIN; GREECE; HETEROSEXUALITY; HUMANS; INTERVIEWS AS TOPIC; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; STEREOTYPING;

EID: 36049051923     PISSN: 00147370     EISSN: 15455300     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1545-5300.2007.00229.x     Document Type: Article

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