Stereotypes and scripts : how language shapes and resists expectations / Samia Hesni.

Author/creator Hesni, Samia author.
Format Book
PublicationNew York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2025]
Descriptionxiv, 149 pages ; 24 cm.
Subjects

SeriesStudies in feminist philosophy
Studies in feminist philosophy. ^A514247
Abstract "This book identifies connections between language use and stereotyping, then draws on those insights to provide linguistic strategies for resisting harmful stereotypes. This book analyzes two ways that people enact and express through language: social scripts and generics. The book draws out threads of these relations and connects them to individual action and social change. It outlines how stereotyping language can be used to denigrate, oppress, or otherwise harm, and then picks out features of that language that can be used to resist and undermine those harms. The hope is that these lessons can be applied to resist various kinds of harmful speech, as part of a broader project of identifying and cultivating language of resistance. The three phenomena in-vestigated are stereotypes, social scripts, and generics"-- Provided by publisher.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
Issued in other formOnline version http://id.loc.gov/entities/relationships/onlineversion Hesni, Samia Stereotypes and scripts New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2025] 9780197769577
LCCN 2025019883
ISBN9780197769546
ISBN0197769543 paperback
ISBN9780197769539 hardcover
ISBN0197769535 hardcover
ISBNelectronic book
ISBNelectronic book

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