Stereotypes and Scripts - How Language Shapes and Resists Expectations

Stereotypes and Scripts forges new ground by offering an interdisciplinary account of stereotypes, social scripts, and generics by identifying connections between language use and stereotyping, then drawing on those insights to provide linguistic strategies for resisting harmful stereotypes.

Sommario

• 1: Introduction: Stereotypes, Scripts, and Generics


• 2: How Scripts Harm


• 3: Disrupting Scripts, Disrupting Stereotypes


• 4: From Disruption to Social Change


• 5: Cheers Make Girls Do Silly Cartwheels


• 6: Counter-examples, Counter-instructions

Info autore

Samia Hesni is Assistant Professor of Philosophy and Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at Boston University. They write about issues at the intersection of feminist, social, political philosophy, and philosophy of language.

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Samia Hensi, Samia Hesni, Samia ( Hesni
• Editore: Oxford University Press
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Tascabile
• Pubblicazione: 23.08.2025
• EAN: 9780197769546
• ISBN: 978-0-19-776954-6
• Pagine: 168
• Serie: Studies in Feminist Philosophy
• Categorie: Saggistica > Filosofia, religione > Altro; Scienze umane, arte, musica > Scienze linguistiche e letterarie > Linguistica generale e comparata; Philosophy of Language, PHILOSOPHY / Social, PHILOSOPHY / Political, PHILOSOPHY / Language, Social & political philosophy, social and political philosophy