Ideology, Generics, and Common Ground

Introduction: Are sagging pants cool? Are cows food? Are women more submissive than men? Are blacks more criminal than whites? Taking the social world at face value, many people would be tempted to answer these questions in the affirmative. And if challenged, they can point to facts that support the...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Haslanger, Sally
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Linguistics and Philosophy
Format: Book chapter
Language:en_US
Published: Springer Science + Business Media B.V. 2012
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/71766