Is your language a social clue? Lexical markers and social identity

Journal of Language and Social Psychology

Volumn 28, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 364-380

  Mange, Jessica ^a,b   Lepastourel, Nadia ^b   Georget, Patrice ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE CAEN   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE RENNES 1   (France)

Author keywords

Attitude; In group bias; National social identity; Second Gulf War; Social lexical markers

Indexed keywords

EID: 70449569022     PISSN: 0261927X     EISSN: 15526526     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0261927X09341956     Document Type: Article

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