A Model of Biased Language Use

Stereotype Dynamics: Language-Based Approaches to the Formation, Maintenance, and Transformation of Stereotypes

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 165-188

  Wenneker, Clemens P J ^a   Wigboldus, Daniël H J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b RADBOUD UNIVERSITY NIJMEGEN   (Netherlands)

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EID: 84867546317     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.4324/9780203809990-16     Document Type: Chapter

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