Publications

Publication details [#52500]

Rubini, Monica and Michela Menegatti. 2008. Linguistic Bias in Personnel Selection. Journal of Language and Social Psychology 27 (2) : 168–181.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

abstractness | discourse strategy | job interview | language use | profession

Place, Publisher

SAGE Publications

Journal WWW

www.sagepub.co.uk/ejournals/

Annotation

This paper explores how hiring committees strategically employ language abstraction to collectively explain their decision to prefer a specific job applicant over the others.