Quastoff, Uta M. (1989) “Social Prejudice as a Resource of Power: towards he functional ambivalence of stereotypes” in Language, Power and Ideology: Studies in Political Discourse (ed.) Ruth Wodak: 181-196. Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins Publishing Company.

0. Introduction

1. Problems of definition

2. Functions of prejudice

2.1 Cognitive function

2.2 Innerpsychic functions

2.3 Social functions

3. The functional ambivalence of stereotypes between necessary and dangerous functions

4. A possible explanation