Allport treated slurs as central despite devoting little page space to language

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These linguistic factors of intergroup hostility were unequivocally of central importance in Allport’s (1954/1979) conceptualization of hostile prejudice. On the one hand, it should be acknowledged that only one (chapter 11, “Linguistic Factors”) of 31 chapters, and only 10 of 480 pages, were devoted to a discussion of the role of language in prejudice. On the other hand, the frequency with which Allport used antilocutions to illustrate his thinking on intergroup hostility is remarkable. — , Rudman, Laurie A - On the Nature of…, 1257