Publications

Publication details [#55138]

Haslam, Nick, Steve Loughnan and Pamela Sun. 2011. Beastly: What Makes Animal Metaphors Offensive? Journal of Language and Social Psychology 30 (3) : 311–325.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

gender | group interaction | meaning | metaphor | tone of voice

Place, Publisher

SAGE Publications

Journal WWW

www.sagepub.co.uk/ejournals/

Annotation

This study explores factors that add to the abusive character of animal metaphors, such as the aversion felt toward the animal, the tone of metaphor expression, gender and in-group or out-group target status.