Evidence of Linguistic Intergroup Bias in U.S. Print News Coverage of Immigration

Marko Dragojevic; Alexander Sink; Dana Mastro

doi:10.1177/0261927X16666884

Evidence of Linguistic Intergroup Bias in U.S. Print News Coverage of Immigration

Marko Dragojevic, Alexander Sink, Dana Mastro

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Abstract

This study content analyzed all print newspaper articles addressing U.S. immigration from Mexico appearing in Arizona, California, New Mexico, and Texas during a 1-year period for presence of linguistic intergroup bias. Across all four states, negative statements outnumbered positive statements; this negativity bias was more pronounced for out-group than in-group statements in all states except California. Consistent with the linguistic intergroup bias, positive in-group and negative out-group statements were encoded using more abstract language than negative in-group and positive out-group statements.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	462-472
Number of pages	11
Journal	Journal of Language and Social Psychology
Volume	36
Issue number	4
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1177/0261927X16666884
State	Published - Sep 1 2017

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Keywords

content analysis
immigration
linguistic intergroup bias
media
newspaper
stereotyping

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Social Psychology
Education
Language and Linguistics
Anthropology
Sociology and Political Science
Linguistics and Language

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