- Titel
- How language shapes our minds
- Untertitel
- On the relationship between generics, stereotypes and social norms
- Zitierfähige Url:
- https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:bsz:15-qucosa2-1007288
- Quellenangabe
- Mind & Language
Erscheinungsjahr: 2023
Jahrgang: 38
Heft: 4
Seiten: 944-961
ISSN: 0268-1064
E-ISSN: 1468-0017 - Erstveröffentlichung
- 2023
- Abstract (EN)
- In this article, we discuss the role of labels and generics referring to social kinds in mindshaping practices, arguing that they promote generalizations that foster essentialist thinking and carry a normative force. We propose that their cognitive function consists in both contributing to the formation and reinforcement of schemata and scripts for social interaction and in activating these schemata in specific social situations. Moreover, we suggest that failure to meet the expectations engendered by these schemata and scripts leads to the activation of “reactive attitudes” embedded in feedback loops of reactive exchange that are constitutive of our mindshaping practices.
- Andere Ausgabe
- Erstveröffentlichung
DOI: 10.1111/mila.12449 - Freie Schlagwörter (EN)
- development, generics, language and thought, mindshaping, social norms
- Klassifikation (DDC)
- 150
- 400
- Verlag
- Wiley & Sons Ltd., Hoboken,NJ
- Förder- / Projektangaben
- Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdiens (DAAD)
ID: PROFILNRW-2020-135 - Version / Begutachtungsstatus
- publizierte Version / Verlagsversion
- URN Qucosa
- urn:nbn:de:bsz:15-qucosa2-1007288
- Veröffentlichungsdatum Qucosa
- 02.12.2025
- Dokumenttyp
- Artikel
- Sprache des Dokumentes
- Englisch
- Lizenz / Rechtehinweis
CC BY-NC-ND 4.0