{"id":19634,"date":"2022-08-29T10:08:46","date_gmt":"2022-08-29T14:08:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/humanities\/?post_type=profile&#038;p=19634"},"modified":"2022-08-29T10:08:46","modified_gmt":"2022-08-29T14:08:46","slug":"samia-hesni","status":"publish","type":"profile","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/humanities\/profiles\/samia-hesni\/","title":{"rendered":"Samia Hesni"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\"><em><strong>Stereotypes and Scripts<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><em>Stereotypes and Scripts <\/em>is\u00a0about language that facilitates oppression. My past and current research is at the intersection of language and oppression, and specifically, about the way everyday language use reinforces and encodes stereotypes. This book stems directly out of my current research, which focuses on a specific kind of language that is used in stereotypes: generic sentences, like \u2018boys don\u2019t cry,\u2019 \u2018women are nurturing,\u2019 and other expressions of the form Fs are G. The first half of this book is primarily about the ways stereotyping language can be used to denigrate, oppress, or otherwise harm. The second half is about how the same linguistic mechanisms that entrench stereotypes can be used to resist and undermine those harms.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">The introduction of the book gives an overview of generics, social scripts and their role in creating and maintaining stereotypes. Generics are sentences that express generalizations about a particular group or kind, \u201cbirds fly\u201d and \u201cducks lay eggs.\u201d Normative generics: expressions, like \u201cboys don\u2019t cry,\u201d \u201cwomen are kind and nurturing,\u201d \u201cchildren are seen and not heard\u201d convey something over and above the descriptive reading; they seem to be saying that boys shouldn\u2019t cry, or that it is right for boys not to cry. I argue that generics both introduce and reinforce stereotypes about social kinds.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16661,"template":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/humanities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/19634"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/humanities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/humanities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/profile"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/humanities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16661"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/humanities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/19634\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19636,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/humanities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/19634\/revisions\/19636"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/humanities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19634"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}