How You Describe a Group Shows How Biased You Are: Language Abstraction and Inferences About a Speaker's Communicative Intentions and Attitudes Toward a Group

Journal of Language and Social Psychology

Volumn 32, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 202-211

  Assilaméhou, Yvette ^a   Testé, Benoit ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ RENNES 2   (France)

Author keywords

intergroup communication; language abstraction; linguistic intergroup bias; speaker evaluation

Indexed keywords

EID: 84878053314     PISSN: 0261927X     EISSN: 15526526     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0261927X12456382     Document Type: Article

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