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Publication details [#66889]

Moscatelli, Silvia, Monica Rubini and Francesca Prati. 2019. If You Criticize Us, Do It in Concrete Terms: Linguistic Abstraction as a Moderator of the Intergroup Sensitivity Effect. Journal of Language and Social Psychology 38 (5,6) : 680–705.
Publication type
Article in journal
Publication language
English
Keywords
communicative efficiency | criticism | discourse strategy | evaluation | intergroup communication | linguistic abstraction | social change | speaker
Place, Publisher
SAGE Publications
Journal WWW
www.sagepub.co.uk/ejournals/

Annotation

This study explored whether linguistic abstraction in group-directed criticisms moderates the intergroup sensitivity effect. It underlines that linguistic abstraction can ease or obstruct effective group communication, and has important implications for the development of communicative strategies aiming to foster social change.