Publications

Publication details [#42672]

Mallinson, Christine and Zachary W. Brewster. 2005. ‘Blacks and bubbas’: Stereotypes, ideology, and categorization processes in restaurant servers' discourse. Discourse & Society 16 (6) : 787–807.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

categorization | discourse analysis | ideology | restaurant | stereotype

Place, Publisher

SAGE Publications

Journal WWW

www.sagepub.co.uk/ejournals/

Annotation

This paper examines how racial stereotypes and categories are constructed, and especially the types of 'racetalk' and 'regiontalk', via casual discourse between patrons and restaurant servers in a contemporary U.S. environment.