On the Descriptive and Expressive Function of Derogatory Group Labels: An Experimental Test

Bianchi, Mauro; Carnaghi, Andréa; Piccoli, Valentina; Stragà, Marta; Zotti, Davide

doi:10.1177/0261927x19867739

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“…Research has found that derogatory labels affect prejudice and produce more negative evaluations of the group (Bianchi et al, 2019); it has also been reported that media users who were more exposed to online hate speech reported higher levels of Islamophobia (Bilewicz & Soral, 2020). There is also evidence in the current study to support Bales (2012, p. 11) that modern-day slavery (we might expand this to also include modern-day racism) focuses on "weakness, gullibility and deprivation" more than race per se.…”

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Language, Discrimination and Employability: Employers’ Othering and Racist Representations of Domestic Migrant Workers on Social Media

Ladegaard

2021

Journal of Language and Social Psychology

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Discursive othering deals with the many ways in which language is used to express prejudice against minorities, and it outlines the processes and conditions that promote group-based inequality and marginalization. This article focuses on online othering, and it analyzes a corpus of 615 comments posted by Hong Kong employers of domestic migrant workers (DMWs) on social media. First, a quantitative analysis of the corpus outlines the content categories found in the posts, and second, a discourse analysis of representative excerpts illustrates the claims made about DMWs. Employers engage in othering of their helpers, and the analysis shows how demeaning racist comments function to publicly shame them and warn others not to employ them. The article uses Language and Social Psychology frameworks to analyze the posts, and it discusses the functions of using racist derogatory language. The paper concludes by discussing how research may be used to address pressing social issues.

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Language, Discrimination and Employability: Employers’ Othering and Racist Representations of Domestic Migrant Workers on Social Media

Ladegaard

2021

Journal of Language and Social Psychology

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“…First, discriminatory language is one way to activate and perpetuate prejudice against minority groups. This mechanism is illustrated by a set of studies in which people were exposed to, or subliminally primed with, homophobic labels, without being personally the target of the slur (e.g., Bianchi et al, 2019; Fasoli, Maass et al, 2015). These and related studies compared homophobic labels (e.g., “fag”) with neutral category labels describing the same category (e.g., “gay”).…”

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The Language of Derogation and Hate: Functions, Consequences, and Reappropriation

Cervone

Augoustinos

Maass

2020

Journal of Language and Social Psychology

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Over the last decades, the use of explicit derogatory language (e.g., hate speech, slurs, micro-insults) has risen in many countries. We provide an overview on blatant language discrimination, including its psychological antecedents and consequences. After presenting a working definition of derogatory language and describing its prevalence, we discuss the social functions it serves and the role it plays in identity protection, in legitimizing group hierarchies, and in establishing and enforcing group norms. Drawing from both the socio-cognitive and discursive traditions in social psychology, it is argued that the language people are exposed to and the language they employ, shape the way they think and construct reality. We also consider two ways in which targeted groups may respond to derogatory language, specifically confrontation and reappropriation. Finally, we address challenges for future research, in particular the need for more cross disciplinary research to ebb the growing proliferation of hate speech on digital media which has become a global international concern.

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“…A growing body of research is exploring the use of slurs, stereotypes, and other forms of race talk. These include statistical experimental and survey-based approaches (Bianchi et al, 2019; Jay and Jay, 2015; O’Dea and Saucier, 2017; Panzeri and Carrus, 2016; Rosette et al, 2013), discourse analysis of race talk in the media (Hill, 2008; Jackson, 2015), qualitative research-based in participant observations and interviews (Embrick and Henricks, 2013, 2015; Hughey, 2012; Myers, 2005), Autoethnography (Ellis, 2009), and fictionalized narratives (Bell, 1997; Delgado, 1995).…”

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Workplace hate speech and rendering Black and Native lives as if they do not matter: A nightmarish autoethnography

Bohonos

2021

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The #BlackLivesMatter movement has been met with resistance and hostility by many whites who do not see the need for assertions regarding the value and worth of Black lives. Those who seek to disrupt this emerging discourse tend to regard instances of white violence against Black people as individual incidents that do not reflect larger societal patterns. This paper addresses these assertions by drawing on discussions of slurs and other racially abusive language in the workplace. Using autoethnography, I provide rich descriptions of how hateful language circulates in whitespaces through both interpersonal interactions and through group-level consumption of racially problematic mass media creating organizations that are hostile to people of color, even in their absence. Major implications of this study include that the devaluation of Black and Native lives is pervasive within many predominantly white organizations and that this reality negatively effects both the life chances and the personal safety of people of color.

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On the Descriptive and Expressive Function of Derogatory Group Labels: An Experimental Test

Cited by 11 publications

References 31 publications

Language, Discrimination and Employability: Employers’ Othering and Racist Representations of Domestic Migrant Workers on Social Media

Language, Discrimination and Employability: Employers’ Othering and Racist Representations of Domestic Migrant Workers on Social Media

The Language of Derogation and Hate: Functions, Consequences, and Reappropriation

Workplace hate speech and rendering Black and Native lives as if they do not matter: A nightmarish autoethnography

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