Prejudice in Discourse: An analysis of ethnic prejudice in cognition and conversation (Pragmatics & Beyond)
By Teun A. van Dijk.
Description
In this book, a study is made of ethnic prejudice in cognition and conversation, based on intensive interviewing of white majority group members. After an introductory survey of traditional and more recent approaches in social psychology to the study of prejudice, a new 'sociocognitive' theory is sketched. This theory explains how cognitive representations and strategies of ethnic prejudice depend on their social functions within intergroup relations. It is also shown how ethnic prejudice is communicated in society through everyday talk among majority members. The major part of th...
ISBN(s)
0915027437, 9780915027439
